Un motivo central inspira esta colección de sonetos: hacer poesía con el material de todos los días. Entre la variedad de temas, los lectores hallarán la pasión irrenunciable por la belleza, el atractivo horror de lo monstruoso, la alabanza a la vida, un lamento por las cosas descompuestas y un elogio a las que funcionan. Hay sonetos de amor y sonetos filosóficos, perspectivas trágicas y notas minimalistas. Hay un soneto al carpe diem, en compañía de Sor Juana. Hay hedonismo. Hay poemas el...

Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional form the conventions and assumptions of this medium. While the book is essentially a study of literary criticism, it also aims to show how texts critically reflect upon the media environment in wh...

Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema explores the trend of portraying children and adolescents in a subjective, adult-constructed point of view in Latin American cinema. This trend, in which the filmmakers are able to express their own anxieties while subordinating the child’s, draws new political implications to these constructions of children’s subjective character. Chapters in this volume touch on intersectional historic contexts, such as the Brazilian judicial system, Mexico’s...