“The discrepant criticism” by Anna María Guasch “The fact of choosing the interview as the format of «artistic literature» responds to the boom that it experiences as a literary genre when dealing with the system of contemporary art and its different agents (the artist, the critic, the curator). As Michael Diers argues, we are faced with
“20 under 40 : stories from The New Yorker” edited by Deborah Treisman “In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of “20 Under 40”—the young fiction writers who are, or will be , central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this stellar group of
“The Perfect American” by Peter Stephan Jungk “The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50s, illustrating sequences for Sleeping Beauty. It is also the story of Dantine himself, who desperately seeks Disney's recognition
“Cría cuervos” directed by Carlos Saura “Ana, a little girl at the time, is a witness to the event: her father Anselmo dies in bed with his lover, and the girl -who was spying on the scene- believes that death is due to a glass of milk that the father has drunk and into which she poured what
“You read to me, I'll read to you” by Mary Ann Hoberman “Here's a book with something new – you read to me! I'll read to you! We'll read each page to one another – you'll read one side, I the other. A unique book 'in two voices' that uses traditional reading teaching techniques (alliteration,
“Real women have curves” by Patricia Cardoso “Ana is 18 years old and has a bright future. She is about to finish high school and has met a boy who likes her just the way she is. She is the first in her family who can dare to dream of going to school.
“The darker side of the Renaissance: literacy territoriality, and colonization” by Walter D. Mignolo “The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Exploring the many connections among writing, social organization, and political control, including
“Huasipungo” by Jorge Icaza “Like many writers of his generation, Jorge Icaza saw in himself and in his works a final consequence of the transformations that liberalism had introduced in Ecuador in the first decades of the century. With his work, he seems to join those who tried to make literature a manifestation of
“All men are equal” directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira “Three divorced men who decide to move in together impose one condition on themselves: “a woman will never spend more than one night in this house”. However, when they find it necessary to hire a maid, they realize that, in
“Democracy and education: an introduction to the philosophy of education” by John Dewey “An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the different methods for achieving quality in education. After its initial publication, this book began a revolution in educational thinking; one