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El acercamiento a la narrativa antiesclavista cubana de la época colonial ha sido tradicionalmente tratado desde la alteridad dicotómica.

La edición crítica y el estudio de esta antología, hasta ahora inédita, de poemas y pequeños textos en prosa desvelan varios tesoros literarios y culturales del siglo XVI español. Entre ellos, destacan un romance desconocido sobre El Cid que los investigadores daban por desaparecido; un juego poético fechable en el año 1551 que enumera a todos los cortesanos españoles de Carlos V y una serie de pequeñas anécdotas a manera de código que constituyen una suerte de microhistoria de la corte en España en tiempos del emperador, así como sus formas de divertimiento. Este manuscrito...

This study deals with the experience of exile in the works of three Spanish American writers: The Cuban authors Reinaldo Arenas and Manuel Diaz Martinez, as well as the Uruguayan author Fernando Ainsa. Along with the reshaping of territories, and socio-economic and cultural dimensions which took place on a worldwide scale, the last few decades have also witnessed a reshaping of the spectrum and voices of Latin-American writers that create, revisit and suffer the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of exile. The displaced subject, or rather, the voices of the displaced, the marginalized and...

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...