Putrefactio

Ofelia and Amoke appear to be complete opposites. The only things they have in common are an elderly, eccentric author named Virginia Wonnacott, the Hiraeth Association, and the feeling that something is missing from their lives. When Virginia offers Ofelia a job as her personal assistant, the lives of the two girls merge. Through conversations, used books, letters, and early morning Whatsapp messages, the girls discover a future they did not think existed as well as their feelings toward one another.

Este volumen de actas recoge las mejores aportaciones presentadas al congreso internacional e interdisciplinar "Exilios femeninos", celebrado en la Universidad de Huelva en mayo de 1998 y organizado por el Seminario de Estudios de la Mujer. Se trata de una colección de ensayos sobre el tema del exilio en cuanto afecta a la mujer, desde la perspectiva de distintas áreas de las Humanidades-Literatura, Historia, Antropología, Pedagogía, etc., y escritos por profesionales procedentes de varios países.

Darrow was born a slave, but he became a weapon. He put an end to centuries of gold rule and became a powerful hero to the republic. Now he will have to risk everything that he has fought for in one last, desperate mission. His destiny intertwines with others. A young red woman flees from a miserable refugee camp and begins a new life that she never could have imagined. A former soldier must steal something precious or lose his life. Lisandro Au Lune, heir to the power in exile, wanders with his mentor, obsessed with recovering the life that Darrow destroyed. When one world ends, another...

Este libro propone un nuevo estudio de las cartas privadas, el proceso de recopilación y edición que en un momento determinado las traslada desde la esfera privada a la esfera pública, y las implicaciones ideológicas y literarias de ese traslado. La autora examina tanto el funcionamiento discursivo del texto privado y su relación con los textos públicos como la economía del género en el ámbito de las instituciones culturales de finales del siglo XVIII a mediados del XIX. Del dominio público analiza tres posiciones significativamente distintas de escritores de cartas: la de un...