Novísimas

This book explores the political, social and cultural consequences of COVID-19 through a corpus of over 15.000 articles published in Spain and Latin America in the first pandemic year. Organized around four epistemic fields (geopolitics, gender, biopolitics, philosophy and culture), the contributions offer a quantitative and qualitative analysis combining Big Data tools and humanistic thought.

This collection of seventeen essays on Spanish Golden Age and Spanish American Colonial Poetry unites contributions from a cross-section of specialists in the field of Hispanic poetry. It places aesthetic questions in their broader European context, and looks beyond the confines of Europe to interrogate the key terms of its title, balancing panoramic approaches to questions of genre with the insights afforded by detailed readings of individual texts.

El escritor y crítico argentino Noé Jitrik nos presenta al evaluador: el profesor Segismundo Gutiérrez, un hombre de rutinas. Todo cambió cuando el profesor recibió una carta del mismísimo presidente de la República: se le anunciaba su incorporación al flamante Centro Nacional Único de Evaluación: nunca se imaginó que formaría parte de una burocracia tan extravagante.

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...

La idea comunitaria de Diamela Eltit es una postura política que conjuga arte y vida que propone un diálogo directo con el concepto de comunismo literario de Jean-Luc Nancy. Se trata de una práctica de articulación de diversas voces plurales desde un espacio común que limita con la apertura hacia el otro, conformando un acto de comunicación que conlleva "la interrupción comunista del dominio de clase, de las estratificaciones sociales y del poder, se propone la escritura en su carácter ampliado", es decir, diferentes tipos de inscripciones gráficas, somatográficos y performativos en ...