La niñez mapuche

Ningún estudioso de la literatura puede igualar la versatilidad, la erudición enciclopédica, el brío imaginativo o la prodigiosa energía intelectual de Fredric Jameson. En una época en la que la crítica literaria, como tantas otras cosas, ha sufrido cierto declive, y en la que tristemente son poquísimas las figuras destacables en esta disciplina, Jameson se alza como alguien venido de un pasado cultural de mayor grandeza, un refugiado de la era de Shklovsky y Auerbach, Jakobson y Barthes, que sin embargo sigue siendo absolutamente contemporáneo.

Las naciones no nacen: evolucionan y son creadas, surgen de luchas y esperanzas y persisten gracias al coraje de sus gentes. En un sentido muy real, son "fabricadas", y no porque se inspiren en la falsedad, sino porque aspiran a la verdad, ya que siempre ha habido visiones alternativas y conflictivas que han contribuido a crear un país. Este libro es un análisis de algunas de esas visiones alternativas que con el tiempo han ayudado a conformar nuestra percepción de España. Visiones a menudo inspiradas por las ideologías y por las distorsiones que puedan acompañarlas, que necesitan ser...

Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century explorers and travellers to South America brought back various ideas on the Maya ruins they had visited and/or discovered. This study traces the history of these theories and the controversy that ensued over contemporary understanding of the Mayan civilisation and in particular the meaning and function of their cities and territories, Mayan architecture, site distribution, spatial arrangement, settlement hierarchies, and their inscriptions. This history is divided into six chronological phases from 1760 to 1990 as it looks at the development of ideas...

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