Las fiestas del intelecto. Banquetes e ideología en la vanguardia española
El primer estudio monográfico hasta la fecha sobre el banquete de intelectuales en la modernidad y la vanguardia españolas.
Nudos y enredos: revistas andinas del siglo XX
Rodolfo Ortiz studies the impact of Andean magazines and analyzes their complex networks of cultural production in the intellectual field of the early 20th century.
Politically Animated: Non-fiction Animation from the Hispanic World
“Politically Animated” interrogates the many ways in which animation as a stylistic tool and storytelling device participates in political projects underpinning an array of non-fiction works.
(Pro)creación. Escritura y maternidad en la España contemporánea
(Pro)creación is a book about writing and motherhood in contemporary Spain: it analyzes how three women authors have portrayed their relationship with procreation in their creative writing.
Bilingual Legacies: Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona
This book examines fatherhood in the work of four canonical Spanish authors born in Barcelona and raised during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Rayanos y Dominicanyorks: la dominicanidad del siglo XXI
Through close readings of various texts that deal with issues of border, identity and the relationship between Haiti and Dominican Republic as well as with the flow of immigrants between Dominican Republic and the United States, this study introduces the trope of the “rayano” (the one that was born, lives or comes from the border) as an apt metaphor to explain the identity of Dominicans in the twenty-first century.
Historias de Montreal: “Miradas de Outremont”
Dr. María Adelaida Escobar-Trujillo’s short story titled “Miradas de Outremont” has been published in Historias de Montreal. Aiming to showcase a narrative vision of the contemporary urban landscape, the project places the Spanish language at the heart of the Canadian multicultural experience. These tales bring together 25 Latino- and Spanish- Canadian writers who call this […]
Crónica de la minería de oro en Colombia: de la montaña al texto
This article evaluates the mining literary history of the mining town of Marmato, Colombia. Starting from novels like Tierra virgen (1897) by Eduardo Zuleta, La bruja de las minas (1938) by Gregorio Sánchez, I trace a line that follows the evolution of mining literature in Colombia, tracing its historical and cultural specificities. I introduce the term “Tropical Mining” to categorize some […]
Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana: Asia en América Latina
This special issue of the Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, co-edited by Kim Beauchesne, Koichi Hagimoto, and Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, provides a wide array of perspectives on the varied representations of Asia in Latin American literature and culture from the colonial times until today, with an emphasis on the multifaceted connections between both regions. Its relevance lies […]
Tiempo del Sur
“Tiempo del Sur tells the story of a family through the voices of four women: Manuela, Titi, Elena and Elisa. Each of them, from their point of view, reveals the events that over the years have marked their path in several countries -Colombia, the United States and Canada- and the particular effect that those events have […]