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Where the Beast Dwells
"Nature is the only place where human beings can go to find themselves" – Henry David Thoreau (Walden) – Celtic fiction and mythology develop in the historical framework of fifteenth-century Scotland to give life to this novel full of battles, adventure, love, betrayal, and mythology. Where the Beast Dwells is a lengthy novel that blends elements of the fantasy, historical, adventure, and action genres. The characters experience a "journey" or life path that they will have to follow, marked by their own lives and experiences. They fight against danger, against death, against blood, and against loneliness. How far can revenge take us? What can we do for love? Are blood ties a limit to love? What are the doings that give us strength in life? How can we seek justice?
DREAMS OF THE BEYOND: Short stories
Terrifying visions, futuristic landscapes, oneiric environments, urban nightmares, supernatural presences, events with no room for a logical explanation. Dreams of the Beyond presents a short-story cocktail by Laura Pérez Macho where she lets us see her love for fiction classics such as The Unknown Dimension, Beyond Limits or Alfred Hitchcock presents, as well as Black Mirror or Love, Death and Robots, among other influences she mentions is her closing remarks. Sophisticated vampires, knocks on the door in the middle of the night, scary woods, and old paintings… they all come alive and plan revenge making each story a startling revelation. These stories are a call to let yourself get lost in the narratives of a young writer devoted to the fantastic genre, who proves through this collection her skills to jump from an apocalyptic scenario to the confines of the universe with just the turning of a page.
Saol Eile
The singer of a gothic metal band, a depressed portrait painter, and a psychologist who has changed his profession have something in common; none of them remember how they got to that strange place called Saol Eile. And they don't know how to get out either... Readers loved the unexpected twists, the short and addictive chapters, and the dark atmosphere surrounding this novel.
No hay país
Entre la muerte de Franco y la descarbonización transcurre la historia reciente de Asturias. Entre Rafael Fernández, el primer presidente del Gobierno preautónomico, y Rodrigo Cuevas, el músico y agitador cultural de liguero y montera, se concentra el último medio siglo de esta tierra. Asturias recuperó su vida democrática coincidiendo con el regreso de Rafael Fernández, antiguo miembro del Consejo Soberano de Asturias y León que partió al exilio en 1937. A su llegada, Fernández se encontró una tierra con una industria pesada aún relevante y una leyenda de resistencia bajo el franquismo. En el 2018 la minería echó el cierre y ahora las principales leyendas son las urbanas, abo...
Daughters of Caliban
Essays by leading Caribbean scholars explore the shifting boundaries between public and private life cross-culturally. Daughters of Caliban demonstrates how gender, race, ethnicity, and class shape human experience and interpersonal relationships in increasingly global societies. The volume examines Caribbean women and women's studies; women and work; women, law, and political change; women and health; and women and popular culture.
ILEANA
What happens when you love too much? Ileana is in the second year of high school when she meets a boy whom the rest of the students marginalize because of his limp. Her sister Manuela has left the flat, where she lived with her and her mother, to get away from an atmosphere that oppresses her and from a secret that nobody in that house wants to talk about but that weighs heavily on the atmosphere. Ileana discovers that the boy with whom her sister has gone to live abuses her and, therefore she begins to press for her "permission", as she has already done on other occasions, to act against her boyfriend. But Manuela faces the consequences and doesn't give in until she is overwhelmed by her partner's violence. Then Ileana uses a "friend" to unethically get her sister's boyfriend out of her life.
Rethinking Latino(a) Religion and Identity
This book critically examine how Latinos(as) engage in defining their identity, which in turn affects how their religious beliefs and expressions are created and constructed.
Toward a Sociology of the Trace
Questions national identity by investigating the creation of memory and meaning.
Transforming Borders
Transforming Borders: Chicana/o Popular Culture and Pedagogy situates Chicana feminists' re-imagining of La Llorona, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and Malintzin/Malinche as sources of border/transformative pedagogies. In doing so, C. Alejandra Elenes contributes to the scholarship on transformative pedagogies by adding the voices of Chicana feminist pedagogies, epistemologies, and ontologies. Linking the relationship between cultural practices, knowledge, and teaching in everyday life, Elenes develops h er conceptualization of border/transformative pedagogies.
