La narrativa de Agustín Gómez-Arcos

"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.

LA MANO QUE ESCRIBE: Literatura, arte y pensamiento FIRST NATIONAL ESSAY AWARD 2008 OF THE PEN CLUB OF PUERTO RICO BY: ZOÉ JIMÉNEZ CORRETJER THE HAND THAT WRITES: Literature, Art and Thought This collection of essays include studies from medieval to contemporary literature in Spain and the Americas. Topics are focused in a philosophical, symbolical, and anthropological perspectives. Some essays cover the history of women philosophers, language and linguistics, sephardic studies, aesthetics, medieval misticism, and feminism... The title of the book was inspired by the special object named...

Un provocador ensayo sobre la ayuda humanitaria y sus contradicciones, a través de apasionantes experiencias personales. ¿Salvar a los demás para salvarse a uno mismo? Apodado el Pasafronteras a raíz de su entrada ilegal en Zaire, Jordi Raich pasó tres semanas encarcelado en Uganda acusado de espiar para la CIA, estuvo perdido en el desierto somalí con el ejército italiano a la espera de un general que nunca llegó, fue atacado por los heridos que salvó del bombardeado hospital de Vukovar, repartió comida bajo el fuego de morteros rebeldes durante el asedio a Monrovia e hizo jogging...

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...