Crítica y vanguardia

Un estudio profundo sobre la génesis del espíritu romántico, su evolución y pervivencia en la actualidad, más allá de estereotipos y etiquetas. La pregunta por el sentido de lo romántico es una cuestión recurrente a lo largo del último siglo. Sin embargo, en muchas ocasiones, la expresión romanticismo sólo es útil para cerrar en falso su verdadero sentido radical, es decir: las nuevas políticas sensibles que en el transito del siglo XVIII al siglo XIX introduce. Pero ¿estamos diciendo algo cerrado, definitivo, cuando decimos romanticismo? Si el romanticismo se nos muestra, a...

Offers detailed analyses and reconstructions of Picon's eight novels. Of special significance to modern readers are his conceptions of Spanish history and character, patriotism, and women and sex -- conceptions that for their day may be considered advanced.

"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

PolitÌca / sexualidad shows that during the 1980s a traceable phenomenon in Latin American women's writing is the creation of a knot in which sexuality becomes entangled with politics. Women's writing struggles to create a political reading of the discourse of sexuality and likewise show how political space forces the private sphere to impose itself upon the sexuality of women. At one level of representation, a woman's body is the space where discourse merges the joyful experience of pleasure with the pain of repression. This book is a contribution to the construction of a Latin American...