Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Catalog
Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Explicación de la doctrina cristiana
Author: Cayetano de San Juan Bautista (padre.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 298
Book Description
Catalog of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : un
Pages : 802
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.
Explicacion de la Doctrina cristiana segun el metodo con que la ensenan los Padres de las Escuelas Pias a los ninos...
Author: Cayetano de San Juan Bautista (Sch.P.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 304
Book Description
Explicacion de la Doctrina Cristiana
Author: Cayetano de San Juan Bautista (Sch. P.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Spanish American Reader
Author: Ernesto NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish language
Languages : es
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Youth's Instructor
Author: Bourne Hall DRAPERCounsels on Sabbath School Work
Author: Ellen Gould Harmon WhitePublisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 9780828016346
Category : Religious education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
To Be a Jew
Author: Hayim H. DoninPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541618149
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The inimitable, classic guide to the ageless heritage of Judaism, from Rabbi Hayim H. Donin, an incomparable teacher and interpreter of Jewish laws and practice. Embraced over many decades by hundreds of thousands of readers, To Be a Jew offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to traditional Jewish laws and customs as they apply to daily life in the contemporary world. In simple and powerful language, Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin presents the fundamentals of Judaism, including the laws and observances for the Sabbath, the dietary laws, family life, prayer at home and in the synagogue, the major and minor holidays, and the guiding principles and observances of life, such as birth, naming, circumcision, adoption and conversion, Bar-mitzvah, marriage, divorce, death, and mourning. Ideal for reference, reflection, and inspiration, To Be a Jew will by greatly valued by anyone who feels that knowing, understanding, and observing the laws and traditions of Judaism in daily life is the essence of what it means to be a Jew.