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Languages : es
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Los Apuros del artista y quejas de sus mujeres
Author: Queen Calafia
Author: Vicente Blasco IbáñezPublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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.
Light Bearers
Author: Richard W. SchwarzPublisher:
ISBN: 9780816317950
Category : Seventh-Day Adventists
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Ethnic Music on Records
Author: Richard K. SpottswoodPublisher:
ISBN: 9780252017186
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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The Global Sexual Revolution
Author: Gabriele KubyPublisher:
ISBN: 9783982147307
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This is the standard work on The Global Sexual Revolution. First published in 2012, it is translated into 15 languages and updated for this edition. The new ideology of gender denies the binary structure of human existence as man and woman and overthrows moral limitations of sexuality. This destroys marriage and family as the foundation of culture.
The Mayflower
Author: Vicente Blasco IbáñezPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752376015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Mayflower by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
The Shadow of the Cathedral
Author: Vicente Blasco IbáñezPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465534628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Economic Reform Now
Author: H. FlassbeckPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137364076
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In Economic Reform Now , some of the world's leading economists issue a strong warning on the grave errors that are threatening to force the global economy over the brink. As Europe moves closer to economic disaster, and America fights double-digit unemployment, this is a must-read for policy makers and those concerned with the economy.
Listen 'n' Learn Spanish with Your Favorite Movies
Author: Scott ThomasPublisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071634185
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
It’s a thumbs-up for this movie-inspired guide to learning Spanish Pop in a movie in your DVD player Turn on the Spanish soundtrack in the DVD options menu Open up Listen ‘n’ Learn Spanish with Your Favorite Movies, and relax as you learn core Spanish vocabulary and phrases It is as easy as that to learn thousands of essential Spanish terms and expressions. You follow along using the book to decipher difficult Spanish passages while watching (and listening!) to a movie’s Spanish soundtrack. Listen ‘n’ Learn Spanish with Your Favorite Movies features comprehensive language notes and translations for: “The Fox and the Hound,” “March of the Penguins,” “The Absent-Minded Professor,” “Tarzan,” “Eight Below,” “Home Alone,” “Holes,” “Rocky III,” “Eragon,” “Hoosiers,” “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “The Princess Bride,” “Anne of Green Gables,” “Finding Nemo,” “The Incredibles,” and “Mary Poppins.” These films are all family favorites and can be easily rented from Netflix or other rental stores.