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The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry
This Companion provides a chronological survey of Latin American poetry, analysis of modern trends and six succinct essays on the major figures.
Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars
The Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars coversthe period 1954–1990 in South America, when authoritarian regimes waged war on subversion, both real and imagined. The term “dirty war” (guerra sucia), though originally associated with the military dictatorship in Argentina from 1976 to 1983, has since been applied to neighboring dictatorships in Paraguay (1954–1989), Brazil (1964–1985), Bolivia (1971–1981), Uruguay (1973–1985), and Chile (1973–1990). Although the concept is by no means peculiar to Latin America—the term has become a byword for state-sponsored repression anywhere in the world—these regimes were among its most notorious practitioners. In the mid-1970s they...
Retratos públicos
Laura Malosetti Costa se ocupa aquí del retrato como soporte de la memoria afectiva y la idealización o deformación caricaturesca de ciertos personajes públicos a lo largo del tiempo, en su doble dimensión de arte y documento. Su análisis está centrado en los retratos más perdurables de algunas figuras heroicas de la independencia latinoamericana. Examina críticamente la ausencia casi total de retratos de Juana Azurduy y la problemática fijación de su imagen; la inadecuación de los retratos de Belgrano al estereotipo masculino del guerrero revolucionario; la imagen "blanda" del traicionado Miranda, y la construcción del tópico del héroe moderno en Simón Bolívar y Artigas. Ad...
