Description: This new critical edition--featuring an invaluable, contextualizing introduction and afterword in addition to the new English translation--offers readers the most detailed portrait of the everyday lives and plight of free people of color in Cuba in any novel up to the 1850s.Writing the Early Americas
Review Quotes:
The topic of Orihuela's novel is noteworthy and timely, and its availability in English will bring much-needed attention to the Spanish original. Equally significant, both the English translation and the Spanish original raise critical issues about slavery and the process of writing about slavery.
--William Luis, Vanderbilt University, author of Literary Bondage: Slavery in Cuban Narrative