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The Dialectics of Exile
The history of exile literature is as old as the history of writing itself. Despite this vast and varied literary tradition, criticism of exile writing has tended to analyze these works according to a binary logic, where exile either produces creative freedom or it traps the writer in restrictive nostalgia. The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language and Space in Hispanic Literatures offers a theory of exile writing that accounts for the persistence of these dual impulses and for the ways that they often co-exist within the same literary works. Focusing on writers working in the latter part of the twentieth century who were exiled during a historical moment of increasing globalization, t...
A Twice-told Tale
Essays on Iberian views of the age of conquest through literature and cinema
Pedro Gómez Valderrama
Su vida - Claves de su universo literario - El cuento, forma y sentido de la cultura - Gómez Valderrama, el ensayista - Selección de textos.
The Flight of the Condor
These stories from Colombia contain pain and love, and sometimes even humor, allowing us to see a vibrant country amidst the death and loss. We encounter townspeople overcome by fear, a man begging unsuccessfully for his life, an execution delayed for Christmas, the sounds and smells of burning coffee plantations, and other glimpses of daily life. This anthology reveals the contradictions and complexities of the human condition.
Más arriba del reino
En sus cuentos, urdios sobre zonas en que la historia es inaveriguable, sobre un mundo de posibilidades sin comprobación dable, nada hay que se imponga al lector. La imposibilidad de trazar en muchos de ellos una línea divisoria entre lo real y lo imaginario, entre la historia y la ficción, tiene, en su caso, una prodigiosa significación, porque va paralela a un desdibujamiento entre la forma del cuento y la del ensayo.
The Constant Diplomat
The leaders and politics of the Soviet Union seen through the eyes of an experienced ambassador.
Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales
Until the 1980s, Colombia's Llanos Orientales was a frontier, a vast tropical grassland plain east of the Andes. Populated mainly by indigenous people, it was considered "primitive" by much of the rest of Colombia. All of that changed when exploitable petroleum deposits were discovered, and the Llanos was transformed into the fastest growing region in the country. Rausch surveys sixty years of the area's history, from La Violencia—the civil war that rocked the country from 1948 to 1958—and the presidency of Rojas Pinilla, who helped pacify the Llanos in the late 1950s, to the National Front agreement between the Conservative and Liberal parties during the 1960s, its aftermath, and the rapid changes during the last half of the twentieth century. Using archival research and her own first-hand experiences, Jane Rausch examines the Colombian government's Llanos policies and the political, economic, and social changes they have brought about. This book brings to a strong conclusion Rausch's large-scale historical survey of a region: one sharing much in common with other South American frontiers and critical to Colombia's present and future.
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