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La obra registra una serie de entrevistas a refugiados que habían vuelto a su país, España, así como en Italia y algunas en Estados Unidos, cada una tiene un código que la identifica. Las entrevistas se caracterizan por constituir una biografía, un recorrido vital que atraviesa de manera fundamental la historia de dos países España y México.

"In this book, Harriet Hyman Alonso unravels Sherwood's inner struggle and portrays his political journey. Relying largely on his letters, diaries, plays, films, essays, and biography of Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins, she traces Sherwood's obsession with the world of politics and its effects on his life and art, from his experience as a soldier in World War I to the Cold War. She also describes his participation in the Algonquin Round Table, his friendships and working relationships with such notables as Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Edna Ferber, Spencer Tracy, Harry Hopkins, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, his two marriages and uneasy relationship with his daughter, and his leadership role in the Broadway community.".

This book is about the construction and tranformation of peasant military colonists on Mexico's northern frontier from the late 18th through the early 20th century. Though the majority of the data comes from the pueblo of Namiquipa in the state of Chihuahua, the argument has broader implications for the study of northern Mexico, frontier societies, and our understanding of the northern armies in the 1910 Revolution. The study is rare for its integration of several levels, placing an analysis of gender and ethnicity within a specific historical period. The author demonstrates that a distinct kind of frontier serrano society was generated in Namiquipa between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries. In exchange for keeping the Apaches at bay, colonists were provided with arms and land grants. At the same time, they developed a gendered sense of ethnic identity that equated honor with land, autonomy, and a kind of masculinity that distinguished the "civilized" colonist from the "barbarous" Indian. While this identity was itself ordered hierarchically between men and women, and between "Hispanic" and "Indian," it also provided serranos with a sense of pride and dignity that was not directly associated with wealth. After the defeat of the Apaches, and with increased state control during the last decades of the Porfiriato, the serranos on the frontier were transformed from bulwarks of order to victims of progress. The expansion of capitalism and the manipulation of local political office by men no longer accountable to communal norms eroded the legitimacy of both powerholders and the central state. In response, serranos constructed an ideology of history based on past notions of masculine honor and autonomy. This ideology motivated their confrontations with the Mexican state during the 1890s and also served as the force behind their mobilization in the 1910 revolution.

En Os escritores galegos ante a Guerra Civil española, Xesús Alonso Montero rescata textos pouco coñecidos, ademais dalgúns inéditos, que revelan o complexo e problemático mapa moral e político daqueles anos. Textos non frecuentados para achegármonos á personalidade política e ao labor literario de escritores como Otero Pedrayo, Vicente Risco, Álvaro Cunqueiro, Ramón Cabanillas, Iglesia Alvariño, Celso Emilio Ferreiro, Álvaro de las Casas...

La estanquera de Vallecas es el primer gran éxito en la línea del teatro popular obtenido por José Luis Alonso de Santos, el autor teatral más importante de nuestra época. Basada en un hecho real que terminó de forma trágica, la obra circula por el tornasolado camino del humor. La sombra del tenorio es un monólogo teatral en el que el protagonista, Ciutti, el criado de don Juan Tenorio, revive sus múltiples experiencias.

A pesar de la repercusión que tuvo Francisco Villaespesa durante la ebullición modernista y años posteriores, así como de la relevancia que alcanzó en tierras latinoamericanas, no parece que haya servido para que el nombre de Villaespesa sea lo suficientemente recordado. Confiamos en que estudiar la recepción crítica de su obra literaria hasta el presente, nos lleve a conocer no sólo la aceptación que tuvo en su día sino de qué manera ha evolucionado la consideración de Villaespesa a lo largo del siglo XX, hasta nuestros días. Pese a que Francisco Villaespesa es un autor destacado del modernismo español, su obra no ha sido debidamente estudiada. El análisis de la recepción crítica de la obra de Villaespesa nos ayudará a dilucidar cuáles han sido las causas que motivaron en algunos momentos el olvido de este escritor, y cuáles han sido las claves de la recuperación de su figura que se inicia en los años setenta y culmina con los estudios producidos ya en el nuevo milenio.