Unos Kuantos Kuentos Kontados por un Kretino (El idiota de Luis Riaza)

Un libro que permite distinguir el peso inequívoco del periodismo en el mundo contemporáneo, pero sobre todo deja ver que en el presente las investigaciones más relevantes en México son hechas por mujeres. "Elvira García tiene el don de la conversación... Convertido en reveladoras entrevistas, ese don le ha permitido labrar una carrera periodística singularizada por la perspicacia y la perseverancia, por el poder de penetrar en la esencia del interlocutor." Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa. Hay un hecho que se evidencia con claridad en la prensa contemporánea: las investigaciones más...

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

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.