Border Crossings

Absalom, Absalom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred Hobson has brought together eight of the most stimulating essays on Absalom, essays written over a thirty-year span which approach the novel both formally and historically. Here are critical responses by Cleanth Brooks, John Irwin, Thadious Davis, and Eric Sundquist, as well as four essays published in the last decade. The casebook concludes with Faulkner's own remarks on the novel, delivered in a discussion with...

He's proven it and proves it again in this hilarious, fast-paced story animated by her proverbial grace and his wit. Marco Denevi and some mysterious alter ego narrate a vast chronicle in an unusual way: offering the details of that kind of saga shredded in the articles of an encyclopedia. Articles that the reader can put together in diverse narrative systems, advancing successively, or alternating their advance in jumps, crosses, combinations... Thus, they will compose the story of an Argentine family that begins with the arrival in these lands of a Manuel the Adelantadito, conqueror of the...

«La literatura mexicana de los últimos veinte años se ha caracterizado por la superposición de múltiples tendencias y propuestas innovadoras. Una de las características destacadas en esa producción es, sin duda, la proliferación de textos escritos por mujeres. Para comprender esa contribución, Eva Gundermann explora, con perspicacia y muy fundados conocimientos de la narratología contemporánea, uno de los textos difíciles de la narrativa mexicana: Mejor desaparece de Carmen Boullosa. Con una interpretación que se ancla en aspectos culturales, Eva Gundermann profundiza en las...

La manipulación ideológica de la mujer bajo el franquismo, su exilio exterior e interior, y la represión brutal sufrida por miles de mujeres durante este negro período de nuestra historia.