Las penas del guardador de rebaños

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...

A lucid and intelligent analysis of the alternative theatre in the United Kingdom, in the last decades. It explores the connections between the socio-cultural panorama and the theatrical event, with an inter-discipline perspective that combines artistic-literary comments with cultural history. It is particularly important for researchers about theatre because it presents vital and dynamic expositions. .

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...

La obra del grupo de escritores nucleado alrededor de la revista Orígenes (1944-1956) representa el mayor momento de la literatura cubana del siglo XX y equivale en importancia a la obra de los mexicanos de la revista Contemporáneos y a los argentinos de Sur. José Lezama Lima, Virgilio Piñera, Eliseo Diego, Fina García Marruz, Cintio Vitier son algunos de sus nombres. Al análisis de lo escrito por ellos, y al pronóstico de lo que serían en el futuro, dedicó María Zambrano su esclarecedor ensayo La Cuba secreta. Forjadores de obras espléndidas y disímiles, se encargaron también de ...