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Autobiografía
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.
The Assembly Herald
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Dreaming
Can generational curses be broken? As the heir to a family-owned wine dynasty, Stefano Pietrangelo has no time for love. Heck, he's not sure he even believes in love. He watched as his mother died due to complications in childbirth; watched his father check out of parenting, turning Stef and his baby brother over to their noxious grandmother, Nonna. Stef has learned to equate love with loss and pain. He doesn't need or have time for that in his life. Resigning himself to a bachelor's life, he declares himself married to the winery, and only takes time out for the odd one night stand to get his needs met. He offers nothing of himself except his body and he's happy to keep it that way. A one n...
Two Women
The first openly feminist novel published in Spanish, Two Women tells the riveting tale of a tumultuous love triangle among a brilliant, young, widowed countess, her inexperienced lover, and his pure and virtuous wife. This first English translation captures the lyrical romanticism of the novel's prose and includes a scholarly introduction to the author and her work.
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography.
From Romanticism to Modernismo in Latin America
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
