Gender and nationalism in colonial Cuba : the travels of Santa Cruz y Montalvo, condesa de Merlin / Adriana Méndez Rodenas.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Méndez Rodenas, Adriana
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 1998.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Merlin, María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, > comtesse de, > 1789-1852. > Havane. Feminist criticism. Havana (Cuba) > Description and travel. Cuba > Description and travel. Cuba > History > 1810-1899.

Table of Contents:

From the margins of history : gender and nationalism in Spanish American literature
The return of the prodigal daughter : the new world discovery of la condesa de Merlin
The view from the harbor : gender subversion in the literature of the second discovery
A nation invented : imagining Cuba in Merlin and the Del Monte circle
(In)versions and (re)writings : viaje a La Habana and the origins of Cuban literature
Bound to the (male) book : gender, colonialism, and slavery in La Havane
Creole women : the other as self
La comtesse stares back : the many faces of Merlin in Cuban literature.

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