El chico que quera convertirse en ser humano/ The boy who wanted to become a human being

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...

Este libro reúne dos trabajos guiados por una preocupación compartida: iluminar el lugar que ocuparon los hombres y mujeres afro descendientes en los discursos, los imaginarios raciales y las letras del siglo XIX colombiano. El trabajo de María Camila Nieto, centrado en las décadas pos esclavistas, analiza las imágenes de esclavos y negros libres construidas en la novela fundacional María y en los textos publicados por autores colombianos en el Museo de Cuadros de Costumbres de El Mosaico. El trabajo de María Riaño, centrado en un marco temporal más amplio, estudia la representación ...

Jacques Rancière, sin duda uno de los filósofos más relevantes de la actualidad, realiza aquí un recorrido exquisito por la historia de la literatura en el que analiza la naturaleza y las modalidades del cambio de paradigma que destruyó el sistema normativo de las Bellas Letras, al tiempo que se pregunta por las contradicciones y tensiones de la literatura hoy. Rancière propone una nueva interpretación de este cambio, donde la literatura ya no será “ni la idea imprecisa del repertorio de las obras de la escritura ni la idea de una esencia particular capaz de conferir a esas obras su ...