La obra de Isabel Allende ha recibido una variada critica en estos ultimos trece anos. Se tiende a presentar comentarios en que se puede apreciar el contexto historico general de la obra en concordancia con el tiempo y trasfondo cultural en el cual fue escrita. Las opiniones de la critica academica no resultan tan favorables como la de la critica no academica. Los academicos coinciden en senalar que la obra de Isabel Allende es aun muy reciente para que realmente tenga peso literario. Por otro lado, la prensa le dedica extensos articulos y la presenta como una revolucion en el medio literario.

En los cuentos en Papeles de Pandora y en Las dos Venecias, Rosario Ferre escribe con el proposito didactico de iluminar la imagen de la mujer contemporanea. Ella quiere que la mujer aprenda a tomar control de su vida y deje de ser un mero reflejo, una sombra del hombre. En sus cuentos, con el uso del doble, Ferre describe dos clases de mujeres, la buena y la mala, que viven dentro de la sociedad patriarcal de Puerto Rico. Con el doble, Ferre compara a estas dos clases de mujeres con el proposito de derribar la idea machista de la mujer ideal, la mansita, la buena ama de casa, la mujer sacrificada. En Papeles de Pandora, ella muestra esa dialectica que existe entre los papeles de ambas mujeres. Mientras que en Las dos Venecias, ella sugiere que la mujer se debe hacer duena de sus propias acciones para encontrar su autenticidad. Aunque Ferre no lo dice explicitamente, vemos que la nueva mujer puertorriquena con verdadera autenticidad se parece a la taina.

Although most critics have considered the Colombian novel La tejedora de coronas (German Espinosa, 1982) as a postmodern literary text, we prove that it has a rather conservative structure. In order to demonstrate this thesis, we approached the text from three different angles: The narrative structure, the historical perspective, and the narrator's voice. In a first moment, we describe the characteristics of the realistic novel as opposed to the contemporary novel. Then we analyze the narrative structure, citing different passages, with the purpose of showing how the use of stream of consciousness misleads the reader's comprehension of the text. After this, we analyzed the historical perspective of the author, with the intention of revealing its conventional euro-centric approach. Finally, we dissect the feminine voice of the narrator, discovering the use of conservative cliches and the misogyny of the main character-narrator.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 6, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0577. Adviser: Kathleen A. Myers.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 8, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-03, Section: A, page: 0890. Adviser: Steven Wagschal.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2005. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 0607. Adviser: Kathleen A. Myers. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 18, 2006).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-11, Section: A, page: 4190. Adviser: Dara Goldman. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-138) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2601. Adviser: Ronald Sousa. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 271-281) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2598. Adviser: John C. Wilcox. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-172) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

The present work intends to give a look inside the novel: Regina. 2 de octubre no se olvida, written in 1987 by the Mexican author Antonio Velasco Pina. The novel is an esoteric reinterpretation of the massacre that occurred in Mexico in 1968 when the Mexican government killed many students in a manifestation that was taking place at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas situated in Tlatelolco. The thesis is centered on the esoteric aspect of the novel as a new identity proposal for the Mexican society. To show this, our research includes the theory of construction of identity by opposites. We based this part on the studies done by Daniel Mato and Jorge Larrain. In the same line of thought the present research intends to show that identity is not a steady aspect of human life, but rather a continual construction and deconstruction of it. To show this, we are comparing the novel and what we believe is a new identity proposal with other works about Mexican identity such as the writings of authors like Octavio Paz, Jose Vasconcelos, Roger Bartra, Carlos Monsivais and others.