Mingas de la imagen

"Essays by translators and scholars from Argentina and US working under auspices of the Univ. Nacional de Mar del Plata. Translation is addressed with respect to both general issues such as gender and exile, and specific writers such as Borges and T.S. Eliot. Recommended for translators, scholars, and students"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

This work is premised on the assumption that the time that has transpired since the original exodus after the Cuban Revolution has been sufficient to establish a definable Cuban American literature. This volume, which includes 29 authors writing in Spanish who have lived in the United States since at least 1970, is wide ranging in its aspirations and provides samples of the two fundamental components of Cuban American literature.

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Serie América Latina en sus revistas (en colaboración con el Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas) América Latina es un continente de revistas. Su prensa fue en el siglo XIX una pieza clave en la construcción de esas comunidades imaginarias que fueron sus Estados nacionales. De aquella prensa nacieron primero las revistas del romanticismo, más adelante las del movimiento modernista y luego los magazines populares. En el siglo XX conquistaron la escena las revistas vanguardistas y a su turno llegaron las izquierdistas, las universitarias, las feministas,...