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Mujer o árbol aborda algunos de los mitos centrales de la mujer en el imaginario contemporáneo. Roberta Ann Quance analiza la presencia de estos mitos en las obras de autores como García Lorca, Hilda Doolittle, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, etc., así como en las pinturas de Ángeles Santos,?Remedios Varo y Frida Kahlo, en las fotografías de Graciela Iturbide y en la iconografía popular, especialmente latinoamericana.?Entre todos, destaca por su hondura e intensidad el mito de las Diosas madre o, como prefiere decir la autora, Las Madres, un mito asumido por las escritoras y pintoras del ...

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

Brings together 35 selections by both well-known and relatively unknown authors from all the major Latina communities in the United States. Includes selections that represent the major lifestyles or issues confronting Latinas today, including sexual and personal oppression, family relations, traditional and new ways of exploring the female identity and relationships with men.

Through a study of literature, the social and cultural issues that help form the identity of a people can be revealed and examined. The ten essays in Temas del comercio y la economía en la narrativa hispana investigate the relation between the Hispanic narrative and the economic and commercial concerns of Spanish-speaking peoples around the world from a variety of historical periods. Balancing a study of writers' perspectives on current economic conditions with a look at literary versions of economic events, this anthology provides a window into Hispanic culture for both the student of...