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«Cecilia Valdés», the classic Cuban novel, in an annotated, US printed critical edition by prof. Ana María Hernández

this book is available in print, as well as online reading

Cecilia Valdés, one of the jewels of nineteenth-century Latin American fiction, displays a thematic complexity that is unique among the novels of its time.
Cecilia, the alluring mulata, has come to represent the survival strategies of women of color in a racist society.
The novel occupies a prominent place in post-colonial studies about social stratification according to skin color in plantation societies.
Villaverde's novel shows the process of modernization that resulted from the boom in the sugar industry, and the transformation of Havana and its social dynamics.
The spaces through which the narrator leads us are the same spaces where the story of Cecilia and the history of Havana unfold in parallel lines. A close reading of the novel corroborates the often reiterated perception that Cecilia –alluring, hybrid, complex and tempestuous– is Havana, and is Cuba

Cecilia Valdes o La Loma del Angel
Cirilo Villaverde / Ana María Hernández (editor)
ISBN 978-1-934768-65-5 – MARCH 2013
Library of Congress number 2013934228
474 Pages - In Spanish – Annotated
Printed edition: $46.00.-
Evaluation copy: $29.90.-
Online access: $9.90.-