Más historias de fantasmas de un anticuario

Mister Rex, the most ferocious dinosaur of all times, is on the attack. Rototom and his friends will not be intimidated and are willing and able to defend their village.

Los cuentos que integran este volumen del escritor colombiano Umberto Valverde tienen ciertas cualidades y calidades no muy comunes en la narrativa joven de Colombia. Hay en ellos una eficacia verbal, una economía y dosificación del talento que indican una deslumbrante madurez y se traducen en una cierta perplejidad y "realidad" de los hechos y las gentes que pueblan estos relatos. Esos tibios atardeceres de Cali, poblados por la música afroantillana-argentino-mexicana, que solo ahí podía pasar esa irrestricta acogida, esos jóvenes que buscan un poco de brisa y una propuesta, así sea...

Time is running out. While thousands of teens languish in the camps, Ruby and a group that survived the latest round of attacks gather in the North to plan a rescue mission. They only have one weapon and it's a double-edge sword: proof that the government was behind the plague that killed so many kids. Tensions build when rumors of a possible cure start circulating. Ruby knows the future of her entire generation hangs by a thread and it will only take one false move to make the string break.

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...