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Authors: Ligia Machado Pardo

Considerations about the female gender constitute a permanent reference in the work of Gabriel García Márquez. He appreciates women as a creative, emancipatory force, capable of overcoming and actively contributing to the transformation of society. He recognizes women as a warrior, builder of equity, intelligent and aware that the sacrifice for freedom is not a matter exclusively for men. It demands the presence of men and women with a determined attitude to preserve life, and it is evident that their struggle in this regard is untiring. The ideas of this intellectual are also aligned with that practical humanist tradition that has characterized the most progressive trajectory in the history of Latin American thought, through the centuries.

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Authors: Dailet Naila Soriano García, Magda Céspedes Hernández

Beginning in the last years of the last century a great interest in the study of the work of the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been observed in specialized literature critics. The author's untimely death was not a trigger for this interest, but it was an important factor. His literature delves into the fundamental problems of being Latin American, the fear of dictatorships and the cyclical nature of history, the split to which the subject is submitted in the act of migration. Thus, this paper will highlight the main characteristics of Roberto Bolaño's short stories, the motives through which his represented subjects travel: exiles, writers who suffer from anonymity, anonymous writers in exile. Similarly, emphasis is placed on the work of several critics who have had Roberto Bolaño and his literature as the fundamental axis in their studies.

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Authors: Aliney Santos Gallardo, Arlen Nuñez Lamar

Due to the complex sociocultural diversity of the Caribbean countries, studies on this area have traditionally been fragmented approaches, without the interest of reflecting on the Caribbean as a geocultural region. However, during the last decades some investigations have assumed diverse methodological positions that show a concern for the essence of the area, beyond the differences between the countries that comprise it. The experience of the island condition is perceived as a constant on which it has been widely reflected, although rarely from a perspective that summarizes the multiplicity of its forms of expression. This research aims to review the literature on the main critical positions related to the sociocultural experience of the Caribbean insularity, its meeting points and disagreements.

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Authors: Yeni Hechavarría Urquiaga

Discourse is useful to express ideas; at the same time, it is essential to identify others’ ideologies. This research paper is aimed precisely at identifying ideological positions expressed in the poetic discourse of Maya Angelou. Dimensional discourse analysis is used to carry out the analysis presented. The reader will find different criteria to addressdiscourse analysis, including Charaudeau’s, Van Dijk’s, Curbeira’s among others. Those criteria served as basis for the accomplishment of this paper. This was the first approach to poetic discourse in our Group of Semantic, Ideographic and Discourse Studies of the School of Foreign Languages of the University of Havana, centering the analyses on the implicit valuating utterances with ideological content.

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Authors: Johanset Orihuela León, Leonel Pérez Orozco

This article provides a record of noteworthy climatic events occurred on the Habana-Matanzas region between 1692 and 1876. This record was extracted from detailed primary and historiographical documentation, plus meteorological data from modern climatic scientific literature, in search of a relationship between the adverse effects of events such as hurricanes, ENSO events, local storms, drought and floods on human conditions, in the area around the Matanzas Bay. We corroborate that climate played a significant role in the urbanistic and socioeconomic development of Matanzas since its foundation in 1693, but more considerably during the second half of the 18th and early 19th century. The integration of climatology to historical research provides, although limitedly, inferences on meteorological conditions that are not available from document evidence, and thus allowing for generalized reconstruction of conditions which marked local history.