Las vanguardias literarias en Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Venezuela

This book analyzes, conceptualizes and historicizes the amateur translator figure as political and cultural agent in US-Latin American relations, from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Centered on the work of two US-American translators, Alice Stone Blackwell and Isaac Goldberg, it is the first study to offer a modern history of the amateur translator as subject of resistance and cultural mediator between the two regions.

La profesora de matemáticas, apodada la Hipotenusa, desaparece misteriosamente dejando manchas de sangre. En el colegio, el inspector Arveja emprende un largo interrogatorio de los alumnos a los que la Hipotenusa iba a suspender: Nico, María, Román y Boris son algunos de ellos... Todos son sospechosos pero sólo uno es culpable. Y el inspector Arveja ha decidido desenmascararlo. Tema: Policías y detectives Tratamiento: Misterio y terror Valores: Amistad y compañerismo

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Richly informed by contemporary sociological theory, Manuel de Jesus Hernandez El colonialismo interno en la narrativa chicana distinguishes between the assimilationist and the internal colonialism models of Mexican American society and culture. The author applies the internal colonialism model for the first time to the representation of Chicanos found in their narrative literature. Among the categories of narrative discussed are the espacio pochista, the migrante, and the indigenista. The book is a signal advance in the sociology of Chicano narrative and its application to significant...