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Un provocador ensayo sobre la ayuda humanitaria y sus contradicciones, a través de apasionantes experiencias personales. ¿Salvar a los demás para salvarse a uno mismo? Apodado el Pasafronteras a raíz de su entrada ilegal en Zaire, Jordi Raich pasó tres semanas encarcelado en Uganda acusado de espiar para la CIA, estuvo perdido en el desierto somalí con el ejército italiano a la espera de un general que nunca llegó, fue atacado por los heridos que salvó del bombardeado hospital de Vukovar, repartió comida bajo el fuego de morteros rebeldes durante el asedio a Monrovia e hizo jogging...

Tomando el pulso a la literatura en España posterior a 1975, 12 críticos y 3 escritores acotan los límites de la Transición y la articulación de sus discursos culturales, así como el significado actual de su memoria literaria.

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...

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...