Libertad en cadenas

Juana Borrero (1877 - 1896) - Modernist poet, born in Puentes Grandes, Havana, Cuba. She also excelled in painting. As a poet, she was considered a precocious girl. Her father, Esteban Borrero, was a short stories writer of and a poet; and her sister, Dulce Maria Borrero, excelled at poetry and prose. Therefore, Juana grew up in an artistic and literary atmosphere, amid literary circles and gatherings attended by other writers like Carlos Pio and Federico Uhrbach, as well as Julian del Casal. While still very young, Juana took painting classes, first with Dolores Desvernine, and later on, in...

Offers detailed analyses and reconstructions of Picon's eight novels. Of special significance to modern readers are his conceptions of Spanish history and character, patriotism, and women and sex -- conceptions that for their day may be considered advanced.

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 ...

Mundos y seres poshumanos en la literatura contemporánea estudia las relaciones estéticas y temáticas entre el fenómeno del poshumanismo y cinco obras narrativas de sendos escritores: Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Guadalupe Santa Cruz, Don DeLillo y Mario Bellatin. Mediante estos análisis el libro muestra las diversas maneras como en el ámbito literario se han abordado no solo los grandes cambios a los que se enfrenta el ser humano a raíz de desenvolverse en entornos cada vez más virtuales y desmaterializados, sino también, y sobre todo, las respuestas a la pregunta por su...