Liberales, cultivadas y activas

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...

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...

This book is virtually the only source of knowledge concerning its author's early life. He was born in Montemor-o-Velho some ten or twelve years before the death of King Manuel in December 1521. About the time of the latter event he to Lisbon and intered 'the service or relatives.'

El rasgo interdisciplinario de los estudios literarios de nuestro tiempo ocasiona que sean cada vez más escasas las lecturas en donde la literatura es la base de la argumentación. En los textos que reúne La fiesta del nacimiento de nuevos sentidos. Ensayo sobre narrativa latinoamericana, se ve que no se trata de renunciar a esas otras disciplinas, sino de darles el lugar que les corresponde en los estudios literarios, de tal suerte que, para el crítico, la referencia histórica no invalida el texto de la novela, las modas teóricas no sustituyen el placer de leer, y la sólida...