Hace unos diez aqos Harold Bloom escribis que la literatura hispanoamericana del siglo XX tenma tres fundadores: Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda y Alejo Carpentier (1904 - 1980). Con motivo del centenario de Carpentier, este nzmero de homenaje rezne nueve trabajos originales redactados por destacados especialistas, varios de ellos autores o editores de libros hito sobre el maestro cubano. A su manera y desde ambas orillas de esa Mar Ociana que no pararon de cruzar los protagonistas creados por Carpentier, los nueve autores repiten que no han camdo en el vacmo las palabras don Alejo.

This book explores the relationships between possession, existence and location. After revising the conceptualization of possession in Latin, the analysis is extended to Spanish. From this perspective, certain possession constructions in Spanish are examined. First of all, it is argued that all datives are related to possession in dative constructions; secondly, the characterizing features of the transitive, intransitive and reflexive variants are determined in constructions with psychological verbs; and, finally, the existence of comitative possession in Spanish is proved by the...

This book brings together scholars from Europe, Latin America and the United States in a shared effort to assess the critical potential of the transnational paradigm for Spanish and Latin American cinema. After an introductory part, including a state of the art discussion of some 50 publications, the book presents a set of strategically chosen case-studies, grouped into three categories: transnational modes of production, transnational directors, and transnational modes of narration. Written by some of the leading scholars in Hispanic film studies, the book includes contributions on...

The Fictional World of Javier Marias offers a fresh perspective on the narrative universe of one of Spain's most distinguished contemporary authors. In order to establish the origin and meaning of uncertainty in his fiction, this book presents interpretations of a range of issues inherent to Marías's canon, in particular those related to the nature of language. With the relationship between language and uncertainty at its heart, this study considers the use of foreign languages, translation, and the effect of silence through an analysis of: Todas las almas (1989),...

In El espacio narrativo en la novela chilena postdictatorial, Bieke Willem undertakes an analysis of the representation of space to identify a change in the poetics of recent fiction in Chile. Through a series of close readings of eight novels by some of Chile's most influential contemporary writers (Eltit, Marin, Bolano, Fernandez, Zambra and Zuniga), she examines how Chilean authors in the period following the dictatorship deal in a melancholic or nostalgic way with the recent past and with changes in the meaning of space. The book combines reflections on literature, sociology,...

This book carries out the first study of digression in contemporary Latin American literature. The book approaches the reflexive and political potentials of digression as discursive strategy by way of close readings of four novels by some of Latin America's most outstanding contemporary writers: Roberto Bolano's Estrella distante (Chile, 1996), Guillermo Fadanelli's Lodo (Mexico, 2002), Mario Levrero's La novela luminosa (Uruguay, 2005), and Alan Pauls' Historia del llanto (Argentina, 2007). In this way, the book attempts to account for the different ways in which Latin...

Historical Fiction in Iberoamerican Television 2000-2012 brings together the work of academics who study the production of historical fiction on television in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Spain and Mexico. Through approaches from the social sciences, visual studies, and narrativization, this book contributes to an understanding of series, telenovelas and telefilms as dynamic and relevant elements of ongoing construction of collective identities and cultural memory. Attending to the intersections of history and memory, and to the process of the audiovisual representation of the past,...

Transnacionalidad e hibridez en el ensayo hispanico. Un genero sin orillas examines how the essay, a privileged genre for the articulation of national identities in Latin America and Spain for decades, is being reconfigured in the present age of globalisation and transnationalisation. The articles included in this volume pay particular attention to the discursive forms and the practices of publishing that question old national categories, without disregarding their relevance. Starting from some theoretical considerations about the contemporary Latin American essay, the book...

The filmic commemoration of the republican guerrilla movement and its diverse phenomenology as an armed resistance against the Francoist dictatorship is one of the most privileged topics of the so called Spanish Cinema of Memory. The collection of essays in La memoria cinematografica de la guerrilla antifranquista analyze the most emblematic films of this thematic cycle, touching on the vast scope of different filmic discourses as well as on the films intentions to take up a position in the still current and controversial debate about the historical memory of Francoism. The articles...