La encendida memoria (2ª ed.)

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

Time is running out. While thousands of teens languish in the camps, Ruby and a group that survived the latest round of attacks gather in the North to plan a rescue mission. They only have one weapon and it's a double-edge sword: proof that the government was behind the plague that killed so many kids. Tensions build when rumors of a possible cure start circulating. Ruby knows the future of her entire generation hangs by a thread and it will only take one false move to make the string break.

Los nuevos medios audiovisuales (videoclips, apps, internet, etc.) son parte fundamental de nuestra forma de entender la narrativa en el mundo actual. En este ensayo se explora cómo estos influyen a la literatura, a partir de un estudio de caso de la novela Trainspotting; misma que resulta un ejemplo paradigmático donde los medios distintos al literario pesan sobre la forma de escribir la narrativa contemporanea. (¡Advertencia! Este ensayo incluye varias citas en inglés, por lo que el conocimiento del idioma es recomendable para poderle dar seguimiento).

Simón Bolívar, Andrés Bello, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Rubén Darío y José Martí son las cinco figuras que Grínor Rojo elige tratar en este volumen, dedicado a la escritura clásica producida en América Latina durante el siglo XIX. Teniendo como centro de gravedad en cada uno de estos casos una pieza canónica, la Carta de Jamaica, el Discurso de instalación de la Universidad de Chile, O alienista, Azul… y Nuestra América, el capítulo respectivo interroga desde ella la obra completa del autor en cuestión. Pero no para repetir las lecturas tradicionales que existen a su...