Author: Pedro Sabau y LarroyaPublisher:
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Languages : es
Pages : 62
Book Description
Discurso leido en la solemne inauguracion de los estudios de la Universidad Central el día 1. de Noviembre de 1854
Author: Pedro Sabau y LarroyaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 62
Book Description
Discurso leído en la Universidad central, en la solemne inauguracion del curso académico de 1886 á 1887
Author: Rafael Conde y LuquePublisher:
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Category : International law
Languages : es
Pages : 128
Book Description
Discurso leído en la Universidad Central en la solemne inauguración del curso académico de 1887 á 1888
Author: José Rodríguez CarracidoPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : es
Pages : 72
Book Description
Discurso leído en la Universidad central en la solemne inauguración del curso académico de 1897 á 1898
Author: Juan Ramón Gómez PamoPublisher:
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Category : Plants
Languages : es
Pages : 88
Book Description
Discurso leido en la solemne inauguracion del curso académico de 1878 á 1879 en la universidad central
Author: Rafael Martinez y MolinaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 112
Book Description
Discurso leído en la Universidad Central en la solemne inauguración del curso académico de 1905 a 1906
Author: José EchegarayDiscurso leído en la Universidad Central en la solemne inauguración del curso académico de 1905 á 1906
Author: José EchegarayPublisher:
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Category : Physical sciences
Languages : es
Pages : 84
Book Description
Discurso leído en la Universidad central en la solemne inauguración del curso académico de 1889 á 1890
Author: Marcelino Menéndez y PelayoPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : es
Pages : 146
Book Description
Discurso leído en la Universidad Central en la solemne inauguración del curso académico de 1879 a 1880
Author: Manuel María del Valle y CárdenasPublisher:
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Languages : es
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill
Author: Cirilo VillaverdePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199725233
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.