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How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

"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.

Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of Solitude, his fiction is widely read and studied throughout the world. This invaluable Guide gives a wide-ranging but in-depth survey of the global debate over García Márquez's fiction. It explores the major critical responses to his key works, devoting two whole chapters to One Hundred Years of Solitude. It also examines García Márquez's lesser-known short fiction, his place in the Boom, magical realism and his influence on other writers. Jay...

La imagen de Hemingway como tipo duro no goza de gran estima en la cultura actual, mucho más suave, pero su prosa resulta tan fresca hoy en día como cuando le convirtió en un revolucionario del estilo a principios del siglo XX. Junto a Fitzgerald y Faulkner parece encarnar algo esencialmente norteamericano: contribuyó a crear una literatura típicamente estadounidense que alcanzó la madurez de golpe. Puede que Norteamérica deba volver a incorporar a su psique la idea de Hemingway de la «gracia bajo presión». En Hemingway en 90 minutos Paul Strathern nos ofrece un relato tan conciso...