Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana: 1492-1780
Title | Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana: 1492-1780 PDF eBook |
Author | Raimundo Lazo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Spanish American literature |
ISBN |
Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana: 1780-1914
Title | Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana: 1780-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Raimundo Lazo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Spanish American literature |
ISBN |
An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature
Title | An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Franco |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521449236 |
A revised, updated edition of Jean Franco's "Introduction to Spanish-American Literature", first published in 1969.
...y no se lo trago la tierra / ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
Title | ...y no se lo trago la tierra / ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him PDF eBook |
Author | Tomàs Rivera |
Publisher | Arte Publico Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2015-09-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781611923391 |
ñI tell you, God could care less about the poor. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What have we done to deserve this? YouÍre so good and yet you suffer so much,î a young boy tells his mother in Tomàs RiveraÍs classic novel about the migrant worker experience. Outside the chicken coop that is their home, his father wails in pain from the unbearable cramps brought on by sunstroke after working in the hot fields. The young boy canÍt understand his parentsÍ faith in a god that would impose such horrible suffering, poverty and injustice on innocent people. Adapted into the award-winning film and the earth did not swallow him and recipient of the first award for Chicano literature, the Premio Quinto Sol, in 1970, RiveraÍs masterpiece recounts the experiences of a Mexican-American community through the eyes of a young boy. Forced to leave their home in search of work, the migrants are exploited by farmers, shopkeepers, even other Mexican Americans, and the boy must forge his identity in the face of exploitation, death and disease, constant moving and conflicts with school officials. In this new edition of a powerful novel comprised of short vignettes, Rivera writes hauntingly about alienation, love and betrayal, man and nature, death and resurrection and the search for community.
Historia Crítica de la Literatura Hispanoamericana
Title | Historia Crítica de la Literatura Hispanoamericana PDF eBook |
Author | Orlando Gómez-Gil |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | |
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The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
Title | The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 896 |
Release | 1996-09-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521410359 |
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature is by far the most comprehensive work of its kind ever written. Its three volumes cover the whole sweep of Latin American literature (including Brazilian) from pre-Colombian times to the present, and contain chapters on Latin American writing in the USA. Volume 3 is devoted partly to the history of Brazilian literature, from the earliest writing through the colonial period and the Portuguese-language traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and partly also to an extensive bibliographical section in which annotated reading lists relating to the chapters in all three volumes of The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature are presented. These bibliographies are a unique feature of the History, further enhancing its immense value as a reference work.
Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill
Title | Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill PDF eBook |
Author | Cirilo Villaverde |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 545 |
Release | 2005-09-29 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0199725233 |
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.