Tinta del exotismo

Este libro es una colecci n de ensayos sobre el sujeto ex tico, ese que nos provoca atracci n y al mismo tiempo rechazo. el sujeto ex tico, nos dice Weisz, representa el lugar a colonizar, y la alteridad as resulta un est mulo Para despertar la sed de aventura, lo que ha sido abordado en ficciones como la narrativa, el teatro y el cine de autores como Carpentier, Vargas Llosa, Anzald a, Alexei, Moore, Coetzee, y Defoe, entre otros. Con base en reflexiones de Barthes, Ricoeur, Todorov, Bajt n, Said y Derrid , los textos exploran si lo salvaje, aquello que denominamos primitivo, define la...

En este trabajo se analizan comparativamente los "Bildungsromane femeninos" de la escritora mexicana Carmen Boullosa y de la chicana Sandra Cisneros. This work is a comparative analysis of the female Bildungsromane of Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa and Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros.

Through a study of literature, the social and cultural issues that help form the identity of a people can be revealed and examined. The ten essays in Temas del comercio y la economía en la narrativa hispana investigate the relation between the Hispanic narrative and the economic and commercial concerns of Spanish-speaking peoples around the world from a variety of historical periods. Balancing a study of writers' perspectives on current economic conditions with a look at literary versions of economic events, this anthology provides a window into Hispanic culture for both the student of...

Su amor fue tan intenso como su forma de vida. Niema y Dallas eran agentes especiales y hacían trabajos para diversas entidades, principalmente la CIA. Llevaban unos meses casados cuando aceptaron una peligrosa misión en Irán. Algo salió mal y, para salv

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...