The renunciation : a novel /
Rodriguez Julia, Edgardo, 1946-
The renunciation : a novel / by Edgardo Rodriguez Julia ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. - New York ; Paris : Four Walls Eight Windows ; UNESCO Pub., c1997. - 135 p. ; 20 cm. - 863 .
"Andrew Hurley's fine translation makes available this acclaimed Puerto Rican novelist's La renuncia del heroe Baltasar (1974), the fictive chronicles of an arranged marriage plotted to save Puerto Rico from certain slave rebellion. Interspersed lectures, letters, and documents reconstruct conflicts of class and race set in Island's colonial past. Occasional footnotes, but an introduction would have added insights for the nonspecialized reader"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
1568580576 9231031627 (UNESCO)
Blacks--Fiction.--Puerto Rico
Catholics--Fiction.
Puerto Rico--History--Fiction.--To 1898
Puerto Rico--Politics and government--Fiction.--To 1898
Historical fiction.
Erotic stories.
863
The renunciation : a novel / by Edgardo Rodriguez Julia ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. - New York ; Paris : Four Walls Eight Windows ; UNESCO Pub., c1997. - 135 p. ; 20 cm. - 863 .
"Andrew Hurley's fine translation makes available this acclaimed Puerto Rican novelist's La renuncia del heroe Baltasar (1974), the fictive chronicles of an arranged marriage plotted to save Puerto Rico from certain slave rebellion. Interspersed lectures, letters, and documents reconstruct conflicts of class and race set in Island's colonial past. Occasional footnotes, but an introduction would have added insights for the nonspecialized reader"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
1568580576 9231031627 (UNESCO)
Blacks--Fiction.--Puerto Rico
Catholics--Fiction.
Puerto Rico--History--Fiction.--To 1898
Puerto Rico--Politics and government--Fiction.--To 1898
Historical fiction.
Erotic stories.
863