Les avantguardes literáries a Catalunya

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...

Un estudio exhaustivo sobre el escritor peruano. El libro se escribió en colaboración con el propio Ribeyro, quien aportó extensos comentarios a los análisis de Luchting.

"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Conservar vivo el niño que uno fue no es fácil. Todo parece estar confabulado para que acabemos enterrando los sueños, las ilusiones, el corazón, en nombre de la madurez, la profesionalidad y la eficacia. Y ser un niño es más bien todo lo contrario. Es tener corazón y no recuerdos, ilusiones y no realidades, proyectos y no realizaciones. Es ser capaz de imaginar un futuro distinto al pasado que se fue y al presente que nos apremia.