La pasión de la Bella Otero

To complement the historical survey, a brief description of the social environment in Los Angeles is included. In addition, a short presentation on how the Spanish printing press and newspapers evolved in America is presented to show how these two processes contributed to the literary and cultural background of this ethnic group.

PolitÌca / sexualidad shows that during the 1980s a traceable phenomenon in Latin American women's writing is the creation of a knot in which sexuality becomes entangled with politics. Women's writing struggles to create a political reading of the discourse of sexuality and likewise show how political space forces the private sphere to impose itself upon the sexuality of women. At one level of representation, a woman's body is the space where discourse merges the joyful experience of pleasure with the pain of repression. This book is a contribution to the construction of a Latin American...

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

La viuda de Fantomas reúne cuentos en los que el personaje es ese misterioso viajero cuyo éxodo, además del geográfico, radica en su visión del otro, en sus alucinaciones, en la nostalgia perpetua o en el cinismo. La conciencia que tienen esos viajeros respecto a su particular circunstancia de desterrados se convierte en estilo de vivir y de sobrellevar su confinamiento. Pero no se piense con ello que los relatos están plagados de melodramatismo y cursilería; todo lo contrario: a cada momento la risa o la comprehensión aparece en el lector. El estilo narrativo practicado por Mauricio...