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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Méndez Rodenas, Adriana.

Mâendez Rodenas, Adriana., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merlin, María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, comtesse de, 1789-1852. Havane.

Merlin, María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo.

Feminist criticism.

Havana (Cuba)--Description and travel.

Havana (Cuba).

Cuba--Description and travel.

Cuba.

Cuba--History--1810-1899.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 317 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-305) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-03311-0