The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picón

"The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, âAngeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays"--Provided by publisher.

Brings together 35 selections by both well-known and relatively unknown authors from all the major Latina communities in the United States. Includes selections that represent the major lifestyles or issues confronting Latinas today, including sexual and personal oppression, family relations, traditional and new ways of exploring the female identity and relationships with men.

Una esclarecedora reflexión acerca de la obra de Miguel de Unamuno y de los aspectos filosóficos que ocuparon su pensamiento, de una de las más grandes pensadoras españolas de nuestro tiempo. Este libro recoge un largo y esclarecedor ensayo inédito de la escritora María Zambrano sobre la figura y la obra de don Miguel de Unamuno, escrito hacia 1940 en el exilio cubano de la autora y que, por diversas circunstancias, había permanecido extraviado hasta fechas muy recientes. Recoge también, bajo la atenta y cuidadosa edición de Mercedes Gómez Blesa, otros artículos de Zambrano acerca...

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...