UNA EXCURSIÓN A LOS INDIOS RANQUELES DE LUCIO V. MANSILLA

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...

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

Artículos, ensayos breves, crónicas, reseñas y comentarios sobre temas diversos, escritos durante los años de la primera Guerra Mundial. Estos ensayos de Reyes se refieren principalmente a la literatura, el arte, la política y la historia contemporánea.

Este libro es un reflejo de la capacidad crítica, la síntesis, la cultura universal, la curiosidad insaciable, el rechazo al conservadurismo y la habilidad para construir metáforas visuales de Carlos Monsiváis. Reúne, por primera vez, 48 textos de crítica cultural, social, política y literaria. La mayoría de ellos publicados originalmente en el encarte La cultura en México de la revista Siempre!