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In Mediterranean Paradiplomacies: The Dynamics of Diplomatic Reterritorialization, Manuel Duran presents a new view on the phenomenon of paradiplomacy by analyzing the diplomatic activities of a number of Mediterranean substate entities as a site of political territorialization. The international agency of these substate entities is giving way to new patterns of territorialization, as well as alternative forms of diplomacy. Duran examines the diplomatic activities of two Spanish, two French and two Italian regions. The book poses the question of why and how these regions operate diplomatically in a given territorial milieu and convincingly elucidates the particular patterns of reterritorialization that result from these diplomatic activities.
Se ofrece un amplio abanico de temas de lingüística y literatura hispanas, tratando desde los orígenes del castellano hasta los aspectos de la diversidad lingüística y cultural mexicana. Contiene múltiples artículos sobre autores de origen hispano y también escritos por ellos mismos, en especial de Robert Verdonk.
La siempre problemática y movediza relación entre historia y ficción en las literaturas hispánicas ha dado - y sigue dando lugar -, a valiosos textos literarios, a sugerentes análisis y a renovadas visiones teóricas. Serán precisamente dichos cruces entre historia y ficción los que constituyen el punto de partida de este volumen. En primera instancia, se plantea el dilema historia/ficción presente en las biografias literarias en donde la ficción interviene de una u otra forma, al tocar temas relacionados con la vida del individuo, sean éstos líderes politicos, autores o personajes literarios (el protagonista del Siervo libre de amor o Lazarillo de Tormes). El segundo apartado inc...
Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones.
Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises.