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En Cartas a Cristina el autor vuelve vivas las sensaciones e impresiones vividas y explícitos los contrastes político-sociales en Brasil. Inaugurando un nuevo género en su obra, que bordea la ficción, Paulo Freire revela que la base de cualquier teoría y la llave del conocimiento se encuentran en la experiencia personal y la capacidad de aprender a partir de impresiones obtenidas del universo vivido.

Antonina Rodrigo recoge en este libro las voces de 14 mujeres luchadoras en diversos campos de la vida pública que, sumadas conjuntamente, sustentan, en gran parte, el auge del progreso femenino. Ellas fueron las pioneras del cambio más importante que se está plasmando en los primeros años del siglo XX. En sus páginas viven dos actrices y una bailarina (María Casares, Margarita Xirgu y Antonia Mercé, la Argentina), cuatro políticas (Victoria Kent, Margarita Nelken, Federica Montseny y Dolores Ibárruri, la Pasionaria), una periodista (María Morales), una maestra y miliciana...

A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author’s inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional "crónica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Crónicas...

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization. When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The little boy became part of the family. But later, the siblings realized that the child was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to define herself, Selenis and the...