Pasatiempo

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

Este libro ofrece una actualizada aproximación crítico-teórica, de carácter transdisciplinario, al estudio de la cultura latinoamericana, entendida como un campo de lucha por el poder representacional y como espacio simbólico para la expresión de subjetividades colectivas. A través de estudios de variados registros se exploran los temas del poder; la producción simbólica; las articulaciones de clase, raza y género; el lugar de las humanidades y el papel de los intelectuales en el contexto de la globalización. Para ello, se analizan las relaciones entre lo local, lo nacional, lo...

Acclaimed authors write about the city of Barcelona, Spain, in a collection that features contributions by Paul Auster, Colm Toibin, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Juan Marsé, among others.

Maria Herrera-Sobek, Gene Steven Forrest, Wolfgang Karrer, and Arnulfo G. Ramirez look at various aspects of the short stories. Bruce-Novoa, Patricia de la Fuente, and Santiago Daydi-Tolson discuss the poetry. James J. Champion compares Ulibarri's formal use of language with Latin American and peninsular writers. Francisco A. Lomeli provides one of the first examinations of Ulibarri's essays.