{"title":"StockCERO","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781934768174","title":"Viaje a la Habana","description":"\"Viaje a la Habana\" (Madrid: 1844) written by the Countess of Merlin, neé María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, is one of the most seductive texts of Spanish American Romanticism, forerunner of the Caribbean \"journey to the source,\" as it narrates the re-encounter with colonial society from which the author had parted soon after adolescence. Focused on colonial Havana, \"Viaje a la Habana\" traces the topography of the colonial city, considered the jewel of the overseas Spanish colonies, as the narrator wanders along  childhood scenarios remembering relatives and long-lost family members.  Merlin's African wet nurse, her  uncle Montalvo, mulata divas, Creole women, even commercial agents, are evoked with poetic emotion, while the presence of other groups that compose early Cuban nationality can be felt in the background: portraits of the sugar aristocracy are sketched along with poetic renditions  of \"guajiros\" in the countryside. Part of a longer work dedicated to \"La Havane\", published the same year in Paris, \"Viaje a la Habana\" is an editorial enigma as there is no mention of a translator, nor do we know for sure why the Countess chose to cut down the longer French edition. With a foreword and biographical notes by Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, \"Viaje a la Habana\" is the Countess of Merlin's most important work, continuing the autobiographical production begun with by \"Mes douze premières années\" (1831), translated by Agustín de Palma as \"Mis doce primeros años\" (1838). The second memoir, \"Souvenirs et Mémoires\", (1836) follows young Mercedes  reunited once more with her family in Madrid; her marriage with general Antoine-Christophe Merlin (1771-1839) during the French occupation of Spain; and the couple's dramatic escape through the Pyrenees after Bonaparte's defeat. During her married life (1812-1839), Mercedes Merlin establishes a highly successful literary salon in Paris, a role that sparks her transformation into a writer.  Despite passing the majority of her adult life in France, Merlin never looses her strong ties to the island and her concern about its progress and welfare, a recurring topic both in \"La Havane\" and \"Viaje a la Habana\". Stemming from the author's hybrid imagination as Cuban and French,  \"Viaje a la Habana\" expands our understanding of Spanish American Romanticism, as it reveals the prolonged colonial condition of the island of Cuba at the moment of  awakening to a national conscience. As travel writing, this autobiographical text reverts the conventions of the eighteenth-century \"grand tour\" as it replaces the exoticism of Italian landscape and ruins with the faraway geography of the Caribbean island.  In this edition, Professor Adriana Méndez Rodenas underlines the foundational character of the text, adding critical notes and bibliography that helps the modern reader  understand and enjoy Mercedes Merlin's delightful prose.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309516042613,"sku":"9781934768174","price":26.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781934768174_f90d3f22-84ce-413a-aee7-55f37db42233.jpg?v=1786030279"},{"product_id":"9781949938166","title":"Maneuvering Time and Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eManuel Maples Arce\u003c\/strong\u003e was a driving force in the modernization of Mexican poetry in the 1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis \u003cstrong\u003eEstridentismo\u003c\/strong\u003e was an energetic avant-garde movement that brought the Mexican Revolution to the arts, and the Mexican literary community into the 20th century. Maples' poetry, spanning more than six decades, is of a value that should create for him a respected place among the prominent Latin American poets of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this study, historical literary references and connections are made to aid the reader in placing Maples Arce's work in context to gauge his merit and to justify his place in Hispanic letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe introduction to the historical avant-garde provides the necessary background and context, especially for the English-language readership, and an overview of Estridentismo is included both for the sake of information and to rectify errors and omissions in some past criticism. It is the aim of this study to illustrate the cohesiveness and the trajectory of Maples Arce's poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe persona or protagonist in these poems, the yo, appears to be a poet, and may or may not be an autobiographical Maples Arce. He goes from Cubist poems that present life in the jazz age and modern inventions, to somber existential poems that show the creative force of art across history, to carefully crafted sonnets that ponder mortality, and a dialogue interacting with Hamlet. In a world where nothing seems to last, where everything seems to slip through his hands, the protagonist of the poems strives to overcome separation and transitoriness, to achieve union and permanence: this is the main issue in Maples Arce's poetry. The poems present in a variety of ways the protagonist's situations of loneliness and separation from a loved one, and often a sense of dissociation from some ideal harmonious world, even in the midst of exciting modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis close study of the poems, with textual analysis, is absolutely necessary in order to gain a true understanding of Maples contribution to modern poetry. The analysis of the poems presents the idea of a destruction\/creation dichotomy or cycle which spans the Maples Arce poetic work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn examination of the complete poetry, as collected in \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLas semillas del tiempo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, (for a bilingual Spanish-English edition see Stockcero, 2022, ISBN 978-1-949938-16-6) shows how this thematic thread runs through all of the poems and explains the continuity which exists from beginning to end of the Maples Arce career. 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Cabello had based the plot on his A Mother's Love tradition, and had dedicated him the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLas consecuencias, much more voluminous, abandons this elite attitude as it appears serialized in several issues of La Nación and as a book, that same year, but is received with negative criticism, very similar to the reaction arisen by Blanca Sol.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo years span between these two novels of so diverse aesthetics, a fact that be interpreted as revealing the tension about what a woman should and should not write, the struggle between canon and transgression. By taking this stance Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera opted for the harsh path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition by Monica Cardenas has a special interest for the Latin American Feminist Literature critique. It allows reading under all the scientific criteria two novels by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, unpublished since 1889.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeruvian Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera was an exceptional writer, whose fame equaled to Juana Manuela Gorriti's and Emilia Pardo Bazan's. Monica Cardenas has recovered Eleodora, the first versión of Las consecuencias, and shows how the aesthetics of sublime alternates with the grotesque, an inheritance from the romantic period. The Cabellos' human types show the turn of the Century ideology. As the editor puts it: \"Mercedes Cabellos' novels are a showcase of the traps surrounding the Lima society women of the nineteenth century [...] the novel shows a contradictory modernity\". 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