The Life and Dramatic Works of Gertudis Gómez de Avellaneda...
Author : Edwin Bucher Williams
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Edwin Bucher Williams
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Edwin Bucher Williams
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684483174
In 1842, a young Cuban woman living in Spain published a novel that was so passionate and boldly feminist in content, it did not appear in her homeland until more than seventy years later. Two Women tells the riveting tale of a tumultuous love triangle among three wealthy Spaniards: a brilliant, young, widowed countess named Catalina, her inexperienced lover Carlos, and his pure and virtuous wife Luisa. The two women start out as rivals, yet in an insightful twist, they ultimately find they are both victims of a patriarchal society that ruthlessly pits women against each other. As the story builds to its thrilling climax, they confront the stark truth that in nineteenth-century Spain, women have few paths to a happy ending. This first English translation of the novel captures the lyrical romanticism of its prose and includes a scholarly introduction to the work and its author, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, a pioneering feminist and anti-slavery activist who based the character of Catalina on her own experience. Two Women is a searing indictment of the stern laws and customs governing marriage in the Hispanic world, brought to life in a spellbinding, tragic love story.
Author : Gertrudis Avellaneda
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2010-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0292792174
“The first English translation of the major work of a privileged, unconventional, and somewhat neglected Cuban author.” —Choice Eleven years before Uncle Tom’s Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter. So controversial was Sab’s theme of miscegenation and its parallel between the powerlessness and enslavement of blacks and the economic and matrimonial subservience of women that the book was not published in Cuba until 1914, seventy-three years after its original 1841 publication in Spain. Also included in the volume is Avellaneda’s Autobiography (1839), whose portrait of an intelligent, flamboyant woman struggling against the restrictions of her era amplifies the novel's exploration of the patriarchal oppression of minorities and women. “A worthy addition to scholarship in Latin American studies, useful in comparative literature and social history courses covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jorge Isaacs, Alejo Carpentier, or Ramon del Valle-Inclán.” —Choice
Author : Jefferson Rea Spell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 151282044X
A Mexican literary and political figure of the early nineteenth century whose writings present the best existing portrayal of Spanish colonial society.
Author : Hugh A. Harter
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Otis Howard Green
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Leonardo
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Author : James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Spanish literature
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Romance philology
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Author : Edgar Allison Peers
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
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ISBN : 9781001409719