Roland Barthes

Discusses how Soriano established himself by eloquently combining genres. The prose will unmask Argentina's ethical and political corruption during the period of history called The Dirty War.

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...

Houellebecq sostuvo desde el comienzo una crítica al cinismo moral y estético de sus contemporáneos "a la hora de hablar de la humanidad" (a través de un realismo cínico acoplado, siempre, a la pregunta por la experiencia sensible: ¿qué hay de las interrogaciones filosóficas, se pregunta a falta de un mejor término Houellebecq, más allá de la vida pura y simplemente material?) y no tardó en trasladar esa brecha hacia su propia relación con el resto de Francia, un país con el que, por otro lado, mantiene una relación de usuario antes que ciudadano. Pero si la del usuario es la...

This study explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia and rejects the exclusion of Castilian as a language capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness'. This study, charting the construction of a Catalan identity from the nineteenth-century cultural renaissance until the present day, explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia. Drawing on postcolonial and multicultural literary theories, it argues that Castilian- and Catalan-language narratives are expressions of the same culture. Through detailed analyses of texts by...