Colección de cartas que el poeta Antonio Machado escribió a la mujer que fue el gran amor secreto de su madurez a quien él en sus versos llamaba Guiomar (pero que en realidad se llamaba Pilar de Valderrama). Estas treinta y seis cartas de amor cubren el período del 11 de enero de 1929 a un día desconocido de 1930 o 1931. Eran todas clandestinas. Ella vivía en Madrid, estaba casada, y a pesar de que su marido le había sido infiel con una corista que intentó suicidarse, ella siempre intentó mantener las apariencias y nunca se separó de su marido.

Three plays that examine nation-hood, identity, border crossing by three outstanding contemporary US Latino authors who have been part of MetLife Foundation's Nuestras Voces program at venerable institution Spanish Repertory Theatre in NYC.

Love, Passion and Patriotism is an intimate account of the lives and experiences of a renowned group of young Filipino patriots, the men whose propaganda campaign was a catalyst for the country's revolt against Spain. As writers, artists, and scientists who resided in Europe, they were exposed to new ideas. Reyes uses their paintings, photographs, political writings, novels, and letters to show the moral contradictions inherent in their passionate patriotism and their struggle to come to terms with the relative sexual freedom of European women, which they found both alluring and sordid.

An annotated bilingual edition of Antonio Machado's letters to Pilar de Valderrama. Their correspondence covers a range and reveals Machado's profound love for his secret muse.

Women’s life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period. There are, indeed, examples of autobiographical writing by women in Spain and its New World empire, evident as early as the fourteenth-century Memorias penned by Doña Leonor López de Cordóba and continuing through the seventeenth-century Cartas of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. What sets these accounts apart, the author shows, are the variety of forms adopted by each woman to tell her life and the circumstances in which she adapts her narrative to satisfy the presence of male critics-whether ecclesiastic or political, actual or imagined-who would dismiss or even alter her life story. Analyzing how each of these women viewed her life and, conversely, how their contemporaries-both male and female-received and sometimes edited her account, Howe reveals the tension in the texts between telling a ’life’ and telling a ’lie’.