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Book Cecilia Vald  s or El Angel Hill

Download or read book Cecilia Vald s or El Angel Hill written by Cirilo Villaverde and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Magdalene s Lost Legacy

Download or read book Magdalene s Lost Legacy written by Margaret Starbird and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2003-05-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using New Testament "gematria, " symbolic number values encoded in the Greek phrases, the author reveals that the sacred couple was one of the essential pillars of early Christian teachings, before being denied by the architects of institutional Christianity and obscured by later Church doctrine.

Book Biblical Narrative in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur

Download or read book Biblical Narrative in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur written by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-04-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical account of Ricoeur's theory of narrative interpretation and its contribution to theology.

Book The Poisoned Water

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fernando Benítez
  • Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Poisoned Water written by Fernando Benítez and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first English translation makes avail­able to English-speaking readers a power­ful modern Mexican novel, first published in 1961. Fernando Benítez, well-known Mexican author, journalist, and winner of Mexico's 1968 best-book award, exploits a true but little-known incident by build­ing it into a tightly structured, tense, and tragic novel of social protest. The incident on which the novel is based is a bloody rebellion against the village feudal master touched off by joking comment on the "poisoning" of the water as one of Don Ulises's men is pushed into the plaza fountain. Feed­ing on itself, the rumor spreads that the "boss" has poisoned the local spring, and rebellion follows, with its violent and unforeseen consequences. The result is a frightening look at one of Mexico's major social problems and glaring ironies--that over fifty years after a revolution fought by the peasant and for the peasant, most rural groups are still living below the national economic standard.

Book Ejercicio cotidiano  con varias devociones   tiles al Cristiano  oraciones para antes y despues de la Confesion y Comunion  y otras para la Santa Misa  Recopilado de los autores mas selectos

Download or read book Ejercicio cotidiano con varias devociones tiles al Cristiano oraciones para antes y despues de la Confesion y Comunion y otras para la Santa Misa Recopilado de los autores mas selectos written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nuevo ejercicio cotidiano con diferentes oraciones para antes y despues de la confesion y sagrada comunion

Download or read book Nuevo ejercicio cotidiano con diferentes oraciones para antes y despues de la confesion y sagrada comunion written by Francisco Lopez Oréa and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exercicio quotidiano con diferentes oraciones para asistir con devocion al santo sacrifico de la Misa  y otras para antes y despues de la Confesion  y Sagrada Comunion

Download or read book Exercicio quotidiano con diferentes oraciones para asistir con devocion al santo sacrifico de la Misa y otras para antes y despues de la Confesion y Sagrada Comunion written by and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nuevo ejercicio cotidiano

Download or read book Nuevo ejercicio cotidiano written by Francisco López Oréa and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ejercicio cotidiano

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catholic Church
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1822
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Ejercicio cotidiano written by Catholic Church and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oraciones y devociones

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Socias
  • Publisher : Midwest Theological Forum
  • Release : 2020-06-24
  • ISBN : 1939231957
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Oraciones y devociones written by James Socias and published by Midwest Theological Forum. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todo católico debiera tener esta libro de oraciones entre otras: tiene el Orden de la Misa en español con el texto en latín en páginas opuestas, una guía para la Confesión, y numerosas devociones como la preparación y acción de gracias de la Comunión, el Santo Rosario, el Vía Crucis, etc. This Spanish edition of Handbook of Prayers is a popular, compact treasury of prayers that includes basic prayers from the Manual of Indulgences; the Order of Mass in Spanish and Latin; a guide to a good confession; and devotions to the Blessed Trinity, Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Joseph.