Acercamiento a la palabra

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

Este libro presenta la historia viva y puesta al día de la literatura hispanoamericana. Su información ofrece una panorámica general que aspira a ser equilibrada y lo más completa posible. Al mismo tiempo, José Miguel Oviedo se centra en los autores clave y los textos fundamentales, brindando estudios individuales de cierta extensión sobre estos últimos. A fin de contextualizar las creaciones y los fenómenos estudiados se hacen frecuentes referencias a otras literaturas y formas de expresión artística. El sistema de referencias cruzadas, las bibliografías seleccionadas y el índice ...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

El modernismo fue parte de una lucha por definir la identidad, demoler el lenguaje y los sistemas cognoscitivos del imperio, construir nuevos sistemas internos de referencia y conformar un núcleo de concepciones (políticas, económicas, morales), cuya operación discursiva crearía estados y culturas nacionales.. Este texto reconstruye las aspiraciones modernistas y deja al lector el redescubrimiento de un proyecto conceptual del universo, la nación y el sujeto.