Jesús Arencibia Lorenzo Mario Rodríguez Fernández En un duelo de caballeros que ya va para medio siglo, el campanil de la Universidad de Concepción en Chile (UdeC) y el Profesor Emérito Mario Rodríguez Fernández, se miden mutuamente los arrestos. La torre, de 42 metros y 50 centímetros, rematada por el infatigable reloj y su sincronía …
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Cabrera, Yoandy (ed.). Call Me Meddy / Llámame Medy. kýrne and LPRC Department at Rockford University, 2023. Available on Amazon "This theatrical version, written and translated by Rockford University students, presents a high schooler Medea. We can find many similarities and differences with the Greek model. But the emotions remain intact and as the fundamental …
Rafael Ocasio Agnes Scott College El volumen Dos norteamericanas en la Guerra de Cuba (1868-1878): Josephine T. del Risco y Eliza Waring de Luáces, con introducción, edición y notas críticas de Jorge Camacho, y traducción de José Martí, Jorge Camacho, Francisco David Mesa Muñoz, publicado por Stockcero en 2019 es una colección crítica que reúne …
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Alyssa Giardono Jessica Pequeño Mendoza La Gran Tirana: Descarga Dramática (The Great Tyrant) is a play about the life of the legendary Lupe Victoria Yolí Raymond, commonly known as La Lupe. The play was part of the Destinos Chicago International Latino Theater Festival which took place this year from October 14th to November 21st at …
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Radamés Suárez Reinaldo Arenas was born on July 16, 1943 in the Cuban easternmost province of Oriente, the illegitimate son of José Arenas and Oneida Fuentes. Raised in poverty in the countryside, he grew up to be one of the most talented and prolific writers of the Hispanic World despite the relative cultural sterility of …
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Introductory Note by Dr. Yoandy Cabrera Jorge Luis Arcos, like Fina García-Marruz, is one of those writers for whom essay, analysis, and poetry intersect and complement each other. Though he was old enough to belong to those known as “Generación de los 80,” he began to publish his poetry with the next batch of authors, …
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Alyssa Giardono During ancient Grecian times, some of the shared traditions we still have today consist of rights to a proper burial. Antigone was a woman who lived to see the death of her brother, Polynices. When he was killed, the ruler of her city, who was also her uncle, forbade Antigone from burying him. …
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Introductory Note by Dr. Yoandy Cabrera Dashel Hernández Guirado has published three collections of poems. His poetry moves between elements of Neo-romanticism, an enormous degree of expressiveness and fluidity, parody, metalinguistics, and culturalism. For Hernández, there is, essentially, a cherished lyrical “tú” (you) whom the poetic “yo” often addresses. His poetry merges Neoplatonism, homoeroticism, and …
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Miguel de Unamuno (Translated into English by Elizabeth R. Earle) Let us return to read the tragedy of Sophocles, Antigone. Antigone, one of the daughters of the disgraced Oedipus, who, after having killed his own father without knowing who he was, married his own mother, Jocasta, without knowing who she was. Antigone, contravening the orders …
Irene Vallejo (Translated into English by Marilén Loyola) Risk Upon hearing the news of a sudden tragedy suffered by someone else, still stunned by the shock, we search for differentiating traits. We say that it occurred in another country, that it happened to a far more imprudent person, or more fragile, or more alone than …
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