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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...

La presencia múltiple y compleja del sexo en la literatura se estudia en las litaraturas griega y latina, española e hispanoamericana, inglesa y norteamericana a lo largo de treinta ensayos monográficos. Este libro se concentra en el sexo como condicionante y como materia de la obra literaria y muestra las soluciones que distintas literaturas han dado a uno de los principales problemas de la existencia humana.

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

Las voces disidentes se han dejado sentir en cada fase de la historia norteamericana, generando siempre instancias de resistencia al poder y poniendo en cuestión definiciones interesadas y hegemónicas de la identidad nacional. Este volumen pretende explorar el pasado, presente y futuro de la disidencia ?fundamentalmente a partir de sus representaciones culturales? a fin de entender lo que el pasado puede decirnos acerca de la realidad estadounidense del siglo xxi y, a su vez, cómo esa realidad nos ayuda a desvelar las raíces de su historia nacional.