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Richly informed by contemporary sociological theory, Manuel de Jesus Hernandez El colonialismo interno en la narrativa chicana distinguishes between the assimilationist and the internal colonialism models of Mexican American society and culture. The author applies the internal colonialism model for the first time to the representation of Chicanos found in their narrative literature. Among the categories of narrative discussed are the espacio pochista, the migrante, and the indigenista. The book is a signal advance in the sociology of Chicano narrative and its application to significant...

La profunda crisis de la cultura exige soluciones, y no son pocos los que las buscan. El autor propone abordarla de la mano de cinco intelectuales contemporáneas, que ofrecen su valiosa ayuda ante el laberinto del relativismo: Simone Weil, Edith Stein, María Zambrano, Hannah Arendt y Elizabeth Kübler-Ross.

El temor a la pérdida obsesionó a las sociedades europeas de la primera modernidad. Para dominar su inquietud, fijaron mediante la escritura las huellas del pasado: el escrito tuvo entonces la misión de conjurar la obsesión de la pérdida. Por otra parte, el exceso de escritos, que multiplica los textos inútiles y sofoca el pensamiento bajo los discursos acumulados, fue percibido como un peligro tan grande como su contrario. Temido, borrar era entonces necesario, como el olvido a la memoria. Esta gran obra de Chartier busca comprender la tensión entre inscripción y pérdida,...

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...