Title: The renunciation
First published: 1997
Description: "Andrew Hurley's fine translation makes available this acclaimed Puerto Rican novelist's La renuncia del héroe Baltasar (1974), the fictive chronicles of an arranged marriage plotted to save Puerto Rico from certain slave rebellion. Interspersed lectures, letters, and documents reconstruct conflicts of class and race set in Island's colonial past. Occasional footnotes, but an introduction would have added insights for the nonspecialized reader"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: Fiction, Politics and government, Catholics, History, Blacks, Puerto rico, fiction, Puerto rico, politics and government, Puerto rico, history, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, political
Places: Puerto Rico
Time periods: To 1898
LC classification: PQ7440.R595 R413 1997