Soñar en ruso. El imaginario cubano-soviético

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...

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.

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...

Dos lecturas plantea dos formas diferentes de aproximarse al texto literario. En la situación actual de los estudios filológicos parece necesario integrar distintos métodos para realizar una investigación o para promover un debate en el aula. En el estudio sobre El disputado voto del señor Cayo se indica la importancia de tener en cuenta al escritor, sus relaciones sociales e intelectuales, y de situar siempre la obra dentro de unas coordenadas históricas precisas para captar su sentido. La obra de Delibes se interpreta así a partir de los vínculos concretos del escritor con las...