Border Crossings

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

"Although there are other works on the linguistic interactions between the English and Spanish languages inside the Cuban community in the Greater Miami area, this book is an all encompassing study that lets us see where the language stands today, using recent trends that also let us project what will occur to the Spanish language in the near future.. At the same time, the book offers a clear picture, using current statistics, of what the Cuban community in Miami has accomplished in just four decades."

La Carta y breve compendio (1466), dirigida a Rodrigo Alfonso, IV conde de Benavente, y la Exhortación o información de buena y sana doctrina (1467), dirigida al rey niño Alfonso XII de Castilla (1465-1468), redactadas por el letrado vinculado a la casa del conde de Benavente, Pedro de Chinchilla, conservadas en la actualidad en la Biblioteca de Menéndez Pelayo de Santander (M-88), son dos buenas muestras de la literatura de espejos de príncipes en el otoño de la Edad Media. Escritos en el contexto de la guerra civil entre Enrique IV de Castilla (1454-1474) y su hermano Alfonso XII,...

"First-person narrative does not always fall under the genre of autobiography. In the centuries before the genre was defined, authors often patterned their personal narratives after prestigious discourses, such as hagiography, historiography, and the literary miscellany.Caballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI: "Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century analyzes several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century Libro de la vida y costumbres (Book...