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This article analyzes the existence of the dandy female subject in the Spanish American Modernist literature, from the anthology of the Chilean writer Juan Pablo Sutherland Cielo dandi. Escrituras y poéticas de estilo en América Latina. The incorporation of women writers in this anthology generates the debate about the status of their relationship with dandy and gender definitions. This article examines, in particular, the case of the Chilean writer Teresa Wilms Montt, relating her literary production with the conceptual subject definitions in Sutherland's anthology. Also this article proposes that the dandy subject is an authorial management that generated a specific discourse in literature, but at the same time this subject is produced by his own writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The electoral victory of Hugo Chávez in 1998 became an important issue for the Latin American social sciences. Indeed, the very idea of being given such a major change in Venezuelan politics encouraged a number of perspectives on a process that has drawn the attention of many scholars and analysts of our reality. In 1999, the majority of Venezuelan electors gave a blank check to an electoral alliance that promised to change a nation which at that time took its toll to a democratic period which failed to adapt to a new age. Thus, we have at least three major areas for academic inquiry: First of all, the discussion about the scope of that change. Second, the discussion of the causes of that change, in terms of regarded Venezuela as a case sui-generis in comparative politics. And third, the analysis of the role played by the international variable in shaping that change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing differentiation of occupational roles has eroded the classic function of intellectuals as the supreme producers of sense and logic. Intellectuals survive as specialists in clearly defined areas in the roles of political advisors, research institution directors, university professors, and journalists/columnists, and a very small number of them as interpreters of general values and behavioral characteristics. This evolution has modified the previous close relation between intellectuals and political power, and has been partially responsible for the authoritarian tradition and for the lack of critical vision as to the real collective identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]