Historia de un malentendido

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Time is running out. While thousands of teens languish in the camps, Ruby and a group that survived the latest round of attacks gather in the North to plan a rescue mission. They only have one weapon and it's a double-edge sword: proof that the government was behind the plague that killed so many kids. Tensions build when rumors of a possible cure start circulating. Ruby knows the future of her entire generation hangs by a thread and it will only take one false move to make the string break.

"De las más de 10.000 especies de aves que hay en el mundo, este libro recoge 80: desde el pingüino al colibrí, de la golondrina al mirlo, de la lechuza al pelícano"--

Les veus dissidents s'han deixat sentir en cada fase de la història nord-americana, generant sempre instàncies de resistència al poder i posant en qüestió definicions interessades i hegemòniques de la identitat nacional. Aquest volum pretén explorar el passat, present i futur de la dissidència 'fonamentalment a partir de les seues representacions culturals' a fi d'entendre el que el passat pot dir-nos sobre la realitat nord-americana del segle XXI, al seu torn, com aquesta realitat ens ajuda a desvetllar les arrels de la seva història nacional.