Un desierto para la nación

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...

This novel is unique in the time period. Written in Spanish, by a French author, and published in Paris, the title (Deceits of this World) relates to a well-established genre wherein literature and morality were intertwined. Loubayssin writes with irony and wit. It is delicately erotic, a feature that cannot be found in its Spanish counterparts, due to the repressive censorship in Spain at that time. - In Spanish.

"Un Picasso desaparecido, un detective privado en plena crisis amorosa, dos cerdos entrenados para robar un cuadro. Y esto no es todo, ni mucho menos! Tras enviarse cientos de e-mails, PinkMuffin, nick de la guapísima MAX, aunque a ella le dé rabia recono-cerlo, y BerryBlue, nick del increíble Berry, por fin se han citado para conocerse en persona. Sin embargo, una vez más, parece desatarse un complot para impedirlo y hacer vivir a estos dos jóvenes unas dispara-tadas aventuras."--P. [4] of cover.

This work is premised on the assumption that the time that has transpired since the original exodus after the Cuban Revolution has been sufficient to establish a definable Cuban American literature. This volume, which includes 29 authors writing in Spanish who have lived in the United States since at least 1970, is wide ranging in its aspirations and provides samples of the two fundamental components of Cuban American literature.