Schwaller, John F.

Proponemos demostrar en este trabajo que la generacion de cuentistas cubanos de entre guerras, es la que consolida el cuento como genero literario independiente de la novela. Influye en el proceso de formacion de la nacionalidad cubana, haciendo una gran contribucion a las corrientes literarias que predominan en este periodo. Hemos hecho un estudio de los mas importantes autores, analizando sus obras, mostrando como han contribuido al desarrollo del cuento.

In 1529, in the course of the trial conducted against Pedro de Alvarado by the Court of Appeals (Audiencia) of Mexico, many details of his misdeeds during the conquests of Mexico and Guatemala came to light. This thesis applies the principles of modern abnormal psychology to make a detailed examination of several of the charges brought against Alvarado, such as his unauthorized use of the habit of Santiago, his behavior during the massacre at Tlatelolco and the flight from Mexico as well as in the course of the conquests of Tututepec and Utatlan. The text of the 1529 Inquiry is compared with the contemporary accounts of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Lopez de Gomara, and Bernardino de Sahagun to arrive at a better understanding of the events under consideration.

Profound historical and political changes have conspired to impact the psychological outlook of the Puerto Rican population since early Spanish Colonial times. These cultural changes reveal themselves in the literary output of native authors. Several short stories written by Melendez Munoz, Diaz Alfaro, Gonzalez, and Carrero depict problems in education during the decades of the forties and the sixties. For those in the teaching profession, this was an era of great agitation resulting from governmentally mandated alternation of English and Spanish languages. These short stories manifest a despair and disillusionment attesting to the need for language stabilization within a political entity regardless of cultural allegiance.