Doña Inés vs. oblivion : a novel / Ana Teresa Torres ; translated by Gregory Rabassa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torres, Ana Teresa, 1945-

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Standardized Title:

Doña Inés contra el olvido. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Venezuela--Fiction.

Venezuela.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

West Liberty Public Library (label) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

243 p. ; 21 cm.

Edition:

1st Grove Press ed.

Other Title:

Doña Inés versus oblivion

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [2000], c1999.

Summary:

Matriarch of a wealthy planter family in the eighteenth-century village of Caracas, Dona Ines fights for control of a coastal-province plantation that her late husband has bequeathed to his illegitimate son by a black slave. She dies in 1780 but continues her exposition, searching to prove her rights while observing the political upheavals, natural disasters, bloodshed, and changing racial, social, and cultural strictures visited on her own and other Venezuelan families in the next two hundred years. She watches, finally with resignation, as Caracas becomes an unrecognizable modern metropolis and her descendants acquiesce to compromise over the disputed property." "Ultimately a journal of the tragic clash between classes, of the interface between humanity and geography, Dona Ines vs. Oblivion depicts the maturation of Venezuela more vividly than any work of nonfiction."--Jacket.

Contents:

Pt.1: 1715 -1835

Dona Ines Among the Briefs (1715 -1732)

Requiem

The Colonial Siesta (1743 -1766)

An Audience with Charles III

If You Don't Want Me (1789 -1810)

A Chronicle of War (1810 -1814)

Lament for the Destruction of Caracas

In the Shade of Cacao (1814 -1834)

Pt.2: 1846 -1935

Dona Ines Among Liberals (1846 -1899)

Epitaph for General Joaquin Crespo

The Venus of San Juan (1900 -1905)

Dominguito Finds Another General (1905 -1929)

Leon Bendelac Discovers America (1926 -1935)

PT.3: 1935

1985

Dona Ines Is Nostalgic

Don Heliodoro's Gift

Ernestino's Memory

New Briefs

Endo of a Lawsuit.

Notes:

Originally published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1999.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has barcode label of West Liberty Public Library (struck through and partially removed) on cover.

ISBN:

0802137261

9780802137265

OCLC:

43859583

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