La reinvención de la memoria

"The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, âAngeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays"--Provided by publisher.

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

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...

There is a ghost in the girls' bathroom at school! It's the coolest thing that has ever happened there until the teachers find out. Will Ivy and Bean find a way to get the ghost out of the bathroom? Don't put anything past these two friends.