Mario Santana

University of Chicago | UC · Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Resumen: Este artículo reflexiona en torno a la noción de literatura nacional a partir de la relación recepción que los escritores latinoamericanos del boom tuvieron en el campo literario español. ¿Cómo dar cuenta, a la hora de estudiar el proceso de la vida literaria nacional, de la presencia de textos literarios “extranjeros” que circulan ampliam...

Fictional narratives devoted to the recent past have become increasingly popular in the last two decades, not only in the field of literary production but also – and perhaps more surprisingly – on television. Series like Temps de silenci (Televisió de Catalunya, 2001–2002) and Cuéntame (Televisión Española, since 2001) have proved that there is a s...

MLN 116.2 (2001) 250-265 "El indulto," originally published in 1883 in Revista Ibérica, was the first short story by Emilia Pardo Bazán to gain a certain recognition among her contemporaries. According to Constantino Cabal, Pardo Bazán's previous attempts at the genre of the short story had received discouraging comments from her father, and she sp...

MLN 113.2 (1998) 283-304 Benito Pérez Galdós' Doña Perfecta (1876) has been the subject of a long scholarly debate about its virtues and imperfections as both literary monument and ideological document. Written and published in serialized form with the clear intent to counter the conservative wave taking hold of national politics in the early years...