La poesía de Manuel Bandeira: del mármol al yeso

Desde Esteban Echeverría y Lucio V. Mansilla hasta Julio Cortázar, Roberto Arlt, Manuel Puig, Juan José Saer y Rodolfo Fogwill, el autor de Las Islas reflexiona sobre la identidad nacional a partir de los textos canónicos que la definieron.

En el campo de la crítica y la teoría literaria sucede que un replanteamiento estético o epistemológico lleva a iluminar bajo un nuevo foco las aproximaciones críticas a obras consagradas y a propiciar, por tanto, revisiones y movimientos en el canon, así como una transformación de la noción misma de literatura, y de los límites y de las prácticas a ella vinculadas, tal como se muestra en el presente volumen.

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

This volume is a tribute to Miguel Mendez, one of the most important figures of Chicano letters. Miguel Mendez in Aztlan includes critical essays on Mendez's fiction, works by Miguel Mendez (including a never-before-published short story), personal photographs, an interview, and an extensive bibliography.