La puerta de la esperanza

This Spanish edition of Becky and Her Friends, by Rolando Hinojosa, is the latest novel in Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series which follows generations of Anglos and Mexicans in the fictional Rio Grande Valley town of Klail City, Texas. In this novel, however, Hinojosa focuses on a character who has previously not taken the limelight: the strong-willed, upwardly mobile Becky Escobar. Following her story, Hinojosa explores the world of Latinas: women's culture, language and spirit in the world of the Valley. Delightfully playful in narrative perspective, this story gives the reader a...

This book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quiche people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as the Banana Trilogy, written betweem 1950 and 1960 by the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias. By showing a direct relationship between the macro-structure of Popol Vuh and its literary devices (including character configuration) and those of the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Seminar paper del año 2005 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 1,3, Universität Osnabrück, Materia: El teatro en Espana en el siglo XX, 11 Citas bibliográficas, Idioma: Español, Resumen: Antonio Buero Vallejo fue uno de los más grandes y famosos escritores del teatro espanol del siglo XX. Vivió durante un tiempo, en el cual Espana sufrió bajo dos dictaduras y bajo la Guerra Civil. Buero Vallejo experimentó las restricciones intelectuales y corporales en carne propia. Además vio como la Segunda República fracasó y como se instaló lentamente...