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Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent writers and critics that rejected the importance of this literature and influenced readers to ignore this literary production as noteworthy. In the same way, this lack of recognition has been perpetuated by the absence of information of the literary works produced during the 19th century and has hampered the investigation and research of new generations of readers. Therefore, this Bibliography of...

«Observemos la fotografía: es en blanco y negro y la dudosa nitidez de sus contrastes denuncia los límites de la técnica de su momento y la fecha ya lejana en que ha sido tomada. Sabemos que fue en 1947, probablemente a finales del año. En ella aparecen tres hermanas».

Si la profundización democrática requiere de una memoria robusta, consciente de los desastres de la historia española del siglo XX y sin miedo de ofender ni de reescribirse, necesita por igual de una identidad apartada del encierro en lo íntimo o en lo más propio de la tribu. Memoria e identidad se combinan para integrar al disidente y al diferente, y alumbrar formas de ser y de estar más abiertas y ajenas a lo uniforme. Txetxu Aguado enseña literatura española y comparada en Dartmouth College (EE.UU.). Su anterior libro se titula La tarea política: narrativa y ética en la España...