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Brian T. Chandler – Hispania, 2018
This article examines the tension between chance and determinism in Jorge Volpi's novel "En busca de Klingsor" and how this relationship is treated both in the narrative as well as in debates regarding physics, history, and politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning from the understanding that the novel is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Novels, Philosophy, Literary Criticism
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Kanost, Laura – Hispania, 2010
Francisco Rojas Gonzalez's 1944 novel "La negra Angustias" is recognized as the only novel of the Mexican Revolution that features a black woman military officer. Critics have observed that, although this semi-biographical novel portrays Angustias as a gender nonconformist who seeks justice for women and the poor, the conclusion ushers…
Descriptors: Females, Novels, Mexicans, Blacks
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Ward, Ruth – Hispania, 2010
This article analyzes in the novel Balun Canan by Rosario Castellanos the pain caused by the persistence of neocolonialism in the Comitan region of Chiapas during President Cardenas's land reforms of the 1930s. In this work, the author lays bare personal wounds through the discourse of the variously gendered characters of a culturally mixed…
Descriptors: Novels, Foreign Countries, Land Settlement, Authors
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McKegney, James C. – Hispania, 1971
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Formal Criticism, Hispanic American Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature
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Ringwald, Eleanor Meyer – Hispania, 1970
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Fiction, Hispanic American Literature, Imagery
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Reeve, Richard M. – Hispania, 1970
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Formal Criticism, Hispanic American Literature, Literary Perspective