Dependence, Independence, and Death: Toward a Psychobiography of Delmira Agustini depicts the life of Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) based on her poems and other writings. These works give evidence of two constructs related to a psychological conflict in her life. The first is a dependence/independence dichotomy, thematized as a polarized love relationship between speaker and Other, who can represent two individuals or dual aspects of the poet s self. The second involves the poet s fascination with death, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when she is murdered by her...

Confronting Patriarchy: Psychoanalytic Theory in the Prose of Cristina Peri Rossi examines three works of the contemporary Uruguayan author who lives in exile as she dialogues with the psychoanalytic discourse endemic to patriarchal society. Peri Rossi s prose, structured like unconscious productions that give free expression to desire and passion as emanating from the forbidden recesses of the psyche, powerfully reveals the message as a treatment for an -ill- society. The language in the three works studied facilitates and reveals the male protagonist s interaction with the desired...

A pesar de las diferencias historicas, economicas, sociales, juridicas y geopoliticas entre Mexico y Polonia, las transformaciones tanto economica como democratica dieron origen a concepciones oficiales de la pobreza que coinciden en ser distintas respecto a las que desarrollaron los fundadores del neoliberalismo y sus seguidores mas fieles, la pregunta central de este texto es por que surgieron estas diferencias? Ya que las concepciones establecidas en ambos paises contienen elementos liberales y antineoliberales que reflejan impactos de fuerzas, tanto exogenas como endogenas, de los actores...