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Tantos besos por besar

By: Manuel Flores Esteves

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Tantos Besos por Besar es el inicio narrativo de Manuel Flores Esteves. Aquí el autor reúne diecisiete cuentos realistas y fantásticos. Estos son algunos de los fascinantes personajes que surgen de estos relatos: Un escritor de telenovelas que se enamora de uno de sus personajes conduciéndolo al borde de un abismo profundo; un niño obsesionado con atrapar arañas peludas; una maestra que da rienda suelta al arte de la gastronomía; un médico que sueña con su propia muerte y encuentra que la realidad es aún peor; un general enajenado por haber perdido su autoridad; un campesino que confronta la represión de un gobierno militar; y un traductor vengativo que no se conforma con hacer su trabajo y decide embelecar. Un fino hilo narrativo da unidad a estos cuentos de amor, de locura, y de muerte.

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184

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Trafford Publishing

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1412046556

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9781412046558

Folklore and Literature

Studies in the Portuguese, Brazilian, Sephardic, and Hispanic Oral Traditions

By: MANUEL DE COSTA FONTES

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Folklore and Literature

Studies in the Portuguese, Brazilian, Sephardic, and Hispanic Oral Traditions

By: MANUEL DE COSTA FONTES

Explores how modern folklore, through its preservation of ballads and folktales, supplements our understanding of the oral tradition and enhances our knowledge of early literature.

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340

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SUNY Press

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0791444929

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9780791444924

Wage-Earning Slaves

Coartación in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

By: Claudia Varella,Manuel Barcia

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Wage-Earning Slaves

Coartación in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

By: Claudia Varella,Manuel Barcia

Wage-Earning Slaves is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves worked toward purchasing their freedom in installments, long recognized as a distinctive feature of certain areas under Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century. Focusing on Cuba, this book reveals that instead of providing a “path to manumission,” the process was often rife with obstacles that blocked slaves from achieving liberty. Claudia Varella and Manuel Barcia trace the evolution of coartación in the context of urban and rural settings, documenting the lived experiences of slaves through primary sources from many different archives. They show that slave owners grew increasingly intolerant and abusive of the process, and that the laws of coartación were not often followed in practice. The process did not become formalized as a contract between slaves and their masters until 1875, after abolition had already come. Varella and Barcia discuss how coartados did not see an improvement in their situation at this time, but essentially became wage-earning slaves as they continued serving their former owners. The exhaustive research in this volume provides valuable insight into how slaves and their masters negotiated with each other in the ever-changing economic world of nineteenth-century Cuba, where freedom was not always absolute and where abuses and corruption most often prevailed.

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University Press of Florida

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1683401921

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9781683401926

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Tantos besos por besar

Tantos besos por besar

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Folklore and Literature

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Wage-Earning Slaves

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