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Estudio crítico de la literatura contemporánea chinoamericana. Desde los procesos de construcción de conceptos tales como género, raza e identidad étnica, la explosión nos conduce a una teoría de la constelación de diferencias lejanas a la intolerancia y cercana al mestizaje de culturas.

Este libro examina la problemática combinación de autorreferencialidad literaria, revisionismo histórico y pensamiento utópico en varias novelas producidas en Hispanoamérica y los Estados Unidos durante la primera mitad de los años setenta. Los cuatro autores incluidos (Carlos Fuentes, Ishmael Reed, Julio Cortázar y E. L. Doctorow) ejemplifican la forma autoconsciente y amalgamante en que el postmodernismo se vale de la documentación histórica. Aunque se describe aquí la evolución de sus carreras desde el punto de vista de la metaficción y la historiografía, el énfasis recae en...

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...