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Content with her tertuha, or gathering of close friends, her devotions, her books, and her daily routine, Dona Luz is unmoved by the prospect of marriage, because of her illegitimacy and her extremely modest financial status." "But then two men enter her life: Father Enrique, the ailing missionary nephew of Don Acisclo who returns from the Philippines to rest, and Don Jaime Pimentel, the dashing young military man whom Don Acisclo has chosen to back as the district representative in an uncoming election. How Dona Luz responds to both men determines the direction her life will take and the manner in which her illegitimacy will be explained."--Jacket.
In The Learned Ones Kelly S. McDonough gives sustained attention to the complex nature of Nahua intellectualism and writing from the colonial period through the present day. This collaborative ethnography shows the heterogeneity of Nahua knowledge and writing, as well as indigenous experiences in Mexico.
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Author : Julia H. Chang Publisher : University of Toronto Press Page : 184 pages File Size : 10,19 MB Release : 2022-08-31 Category : Literary Criticism ISBN : 1487543026
In the late nineteenth century, Spain’s most prominent writers – Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, and Benito Pérez Galdós – made blood a crucial feature of their fiction. Blood Novels examines the cultural and literary significance of blood, unsettling the dominant assumption of the period that blood no longer played a decisive role in social hierarchies. By examining fictional works through the rubric of "blood novels," Julia H. Chang identifies a shared fascination with blood that probes the limits of realism through blood’s dual nature of matter and metaphor. Situating the literature within broader cultural and theoretical debates, Blood Novels attends to the aesthetic contours of material blood and in particular how bleeding is inflected by gender, caste, and race. Critically engaging with feminist theory, theories of race and whiteness, literary criticism, and medical literature, this innovative study makes a case for treating blood as a critical analytic tool that not only sheds new light on Spanish realism but, more broadly, challenges our understanding of gendered and racialized embodiment in Spain.
Excerpt from Dona Luz The truth is that Don Acisclo had known how to reconcile self-interest with probity and justice. He had acted as the steward of the Marquis of Villafria for at least twenty years, and he had managed matters in such a way that the possessions of the marquisate had passed, little by little, from the hands Of their owner into his own more industrious and careful hands. This transmission had taken place in an altogether natural and legitimate manner. Don Acisclo was in no wise to blame because the marquis was extravagant and dissipated, and far from being imputed to him as a fault it was rather to be esteemed as a merit that he himself had been intelligent, economical, and shrewd. He had always acted with the utmost loyalty in his management of the estate. The Marquis of Villafria lived in Madrid, where he was obliged to spend a great deal. He had need of money, for which he sent to Don Acisclo. There was none. And then various methods Of raising funds were had recourse to, some of which methods I will briefly mention. The marquis, let us say, required two thousand dollars, and sent orders to Don Acisclo to sell wine enough to raise that amount, even if he should be obliged, in order to do so, to sell it at a loss - selling wine already fit for use, for instance, at the same price as new wine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.