El rey

Vallejo Reyna se interna por los laberintos de la tradición sagrada de los tz´utujil, pobladores mayas de Santiago Atitlán en Guatemala, para quienes los nawales son seres sagrados, con poderes milagrosos cuyo origen se remonta a tiempos inmemoriales. El estudio de Vallejo revela aspectos nodales de la identidad maya contemporánea y de la cuestión étnica y nacional guatemaltecas.

This volume, the first ever of its kind in English, introduces and surveys Greek literature in Byzantium (330 - 1453 CE). In twenty-five chapters composed by leading specialists, The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature surveys the immense body of Greek literature produced from the fourth to the fifteenth century CE and advances a nuanced understanding of what "literature" was in Byzantium. This volume is structured in four sections. The first, "Materials, Norms, Codes," presents basic structures for understanding the history of Byzantine literature like language, manuscript book culture,...

En la actualidad prevalece la idea de que la historia colonial hispanoamericana y la historia global constituyen áreas de estudio con poca relación, gestadas en circunstancias historiográficas diferentes. La percepción de mundos distantes se magnifica cuando vemos que el espacio hispanoamericano no goza de una agenda propia en los estudios globales; usualmente, se le contextualiza en una literatura con marcada perspectiva eurocéntrica o sinocéntrica. La América española intenta reconocer la especificidad histórica que adquirió este gran espacio en el lento transcurrir del...

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