Miradas glocales

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...

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent writers and critics that rejected the importance of this literature and influenced readers to ignore this literary production as noteworthy. In the same way, this lack of recognition has been perpetuated by the absence of information of the literary works produced during the 19th century and has hampered the investigation and research of new generations of readers. Therefore, this Bibliography of...

Del shtétl a la Ciudad de los Palacios. Trazos del imaginario ashkenazi en México es una antología que reúne cuentos, proverbios, chistes, poemas, refranes, maldiciones, parábolas, juegos y canciones que trajeron consigo a México los inmigrantes judíos de Europa Oriental en los años vente del siglo pasado. Shtétl, diminutivo de shtot (en ídish, ciudad) hace referencia a las aldeas de origen de estos inmigrantes y, en el imaginario ashkenazi mexicano, el shtétl se convirtió en un espacio mítico, con personajes, costumbres y tradiciones entrañables. Al mismo tiempo, como tantos...

"Once upon a time there was a brave little silver colored fish. He swam around in the big blue sea and came upon a very large black object. What happens next and how it finishes, is what this book is about!"