Ignacio P Lopez

Nota de contratapa: A simple vista, una muchacha se desnuda y el pañuelo del mundo, percudido de espantos y miserias, puede tornarse tiernamente habitable; urdir lloviznas y astrolabios; fraguar zaguanes y estampidas; inventariar las maravillas, las deslumbrantes sinuosidades de amaneceres y atardec...

While Said focused on the perceptions and stereotypes of the Near East 'Oriental' in England, France and the United States, most of these essays study the decentering interplay between 'peripheral' areas of the Third World, 'semiperipheral' areas (Spain and Portugal since the second part of the seve...

Magical Realism analyses its evolution as well as its manifestations in different cultures. Several essays discuss the struggle between the hegemonic imposition of western modernity and subaltern, ethnicized, non-western conceptualizations in the Third World. Magical realist cultural production is t...

A mixed infantry formation made up of about 3,000 men armed with pikes, swords and handguns, the innovative and influential tercio or 'Spanish square' was the basic combat unit of the armies of Spain throughout much of the 16th and 17th centuries. Arguably the first permanent tactical formation seen...

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