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Anselmo Suárez Y Romero
Anselmo Suárez y Romero (c. 1818 – 1878) was a Cuban writer and novelist, better known for the first novel in Spanish about slavery in the Americas: ''Francisco'', based largely on ''"Autobiografía de un esclavo"'' by Juan Francisco Manzano (1835), the first autobiography written in Spanish by a slave. Life Suárez y Romero was educated in his native city, where he devoted himself to teaching and contributing to public education. * His literary career began with ''Una noche de retreta'', ''Un viejo impertinente'', ''Un recuerdo'', followed by the publication of ''Biografía de Carlota Valdés'' (1838) (). * Between 1838 and 1839, he writes the novel ''Francisco'' which would be published forty years later. * In 1859, followed by a series of masterly sketches and descriptions of Cuban scenery and customs, ''Colección de Artículos''() is published. * In that same year he was admitted into the Law Bar Association. * In 1862, some of his works, mostly essays about public educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjectivity, imagination, and appreciation of nature in society and culture in response to the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Romanticists rejected the social conventions of the time in favour of a moral outlook known as individualism. They argued that passion (emotion), passion and intuition were crucial to understanding the world, and that beauty is more than merely an classicism, affair of form, but rather something that evokes a strong emotional response. With this philosophical foundation, the Romanticists elevated several key themes to which they were deeply committed: a Reverence (emotion), reverence for nature and the supernatural, nostalgia, an idealization of the past as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Francisco Manzano
Juan Francisco Manzano (c. 1797–1853) was born a house slave in the province of Matanzas, Cuba during the colonial period. Manzano's father died before he was fifteen and his only remaining family was his mother, sister, and two brothers. Manzano worked as a page throughout his life. He wrote two works of poetry and his autobiography while still enslaved. ''The Autobiography of a Slave'' is one of only two personal accounts of 19th-century Cuban slavery, the only existing narrative accounts of slavery in Spanish America. The other is by Esteban Mesa Montejo. Irish abolitionist Richard Robert Madden published his English translation of the autobiography under the title ''Life of the Negro Poet'' in his 1840 book ''Poems by a slave in the island of Cuba''.Gera Burton. (2004). ''Ambivalence and the postcolonial subject: the strategic alliance of Juan Francisco Manzano and Richard Robert Madden''. Volume 10 of Latin America. Peter Lang Publishing. . A second part to Manzano's auto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Tanco
Félix Tanco y Bosmeniel (Jan 28, 1797–1871, was a writer, poet, and novelist, better known for the first fictional story about slavery in the Americas: ''Petrona y Rosalía''. Born Félix Manuel de Jesús Tanco y Bosmeniel, in Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city ..., Colombia, he arrived in Cuba at a very young age. He was considered the most radical writer of the epoch speaking against the injustices committed by the colonial government. He wrote at length against slavery and the despotic treatment that many blacks suffered under its authoritarian rule. In the narrative of his masterpiece ''Petrona y Rosalía'', he spoke about the cruelty inflicted onto the slaves by the ruling master class that was backed by the colonial government. He spoke against th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirilo Villaverde
Cirilo Villaverde de la Paz (28 October 1812 – 24 October 1894) was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist and freedom fighter. He is best known for '' Cecilia Valdés'', a novel about classes and races in colonial Cuba. When the poet Miguel Teurbe Tolón's wife, sewed the first flag of Cuba,Jorge IznagaJOSE ANICETO IZNAGA BORRELLIznaga Genealogy (IZNAGA - 1420 - Present), Retrieved 5 December 2012. Villaverde helped settle upon the final design: two white stripes, three blue, a red triangle, and a lone star. Biography He was born to a doctor on a sugar plantation called San Diego de Nuñez. His family lived by a sugarcane mill, so he was able to observe slavery and all of its evils from a very young age. In 1820, the family moved to Havana, where he later studied law. He was, however, only briefly employed by a law firm before becoming a teacher and devoting himself to literature. His first works were published in a magazine with the lengthy name ''Miscelánea, de útil y agrad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sab (novel)
''Sab'' is a novel written by Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda and published in Madrid in 1841. The novel centers around the character of Sab, a mulato slave who is in love with his white master's daughter Carlota. The pain of Sab's unrequited love for Carlota leads Sab to his own death, which occurs during Carlota's wedding to Enrique Otway. The novel was not published in Cuba until 1914. ''Sab'' is regarded by some scholars as an anti-slavery novel, and some have also suggested that it criticizes the institution of marriage. The novel was written a decade before Harriet Beecher Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''. According to Nina M. Scott, ''Sab'', just like Beecher Stowe's novel, criticizes slavery as a displacement of what Elizabeth Ammons calls "maternal values by a profit-hungry masculine ethic he slave economythat regards human beings as... commodities." The publishing of ''Sab'' is considered a precursor to the antislavery movements. For another critic, ''Sab'' is "the onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrudis Gómez De Avellaneda
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (March 23, 1814 – February 1, 1873) was a 19th-century Cuban-born Spanish writer. Born in Puerto Príncipe, now Camagüey, she lived in Cuba until she was 22. Her family moved to Spain in 1836, where she started writing as La Peregrina (''The Pilgrim'') and lived there until 1859, when she moved back to Cuba with her second husband until his death in 1863, after which she moved back to Spain. She died in Madrid in 1873 from diabetes at the age of 58. She was a prolific writer and wrote 20 plays and numerous poems. Her most famous work, however, is the antislavery novel '' Sab'', published in Madrid in 1841. The eponymous protagonist is a slave who is deeply in love with his mistress Carlota, who is entirely oblivious to his feelings for her. Life Early life María Gertrudis de los Dolores Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga was born on March 23, 1814, in Santa María de Puerto Príncipe, which was often referred to simply as Puerto Prínc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Zambrana
Antonio Zambrana (June 19, 1846 - March 27, 1922) was a Cuban lawyer, jurist, writer, and politician. Biography Antonio Zambrana was born in Havana, Spanish Cuba on June 19, 1846. Zambrana's early education was guided by José de la Luz y Caballero at his El Salvador school (). He later pursued legal studies and earned his doctorate in 1867. Ten Years' War When the Ten Years' War erupted in October 1868, Zambrana threw his support behind the insurrection against Spanish authority. He was a member of the Central Assembly of Representatives (). Zambrana and fellow signatories Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, Eduardo Agramonte, Ignacio Agramonte, and Francisco Sánchez Betancourt endorsed the Decree of Abolition of Slavery () in Camagüey on February 26, 1869. On April 10, 1869, he participated in the Guáimaro Assembly as a delegate of Camagüey and was elected secretary of the House of Representatives. Zambrana and Ignacio Agramonte were designated to draft the proposal of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (, ; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French and Russian parentage, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba, and despite his European birthplace, he strongly identified as Cuban throughout his life. He traveled extensively, particularly in France, and to South America and Mexico, where he met prominent members of the Latin American cultural and artistic community. Carpentier took a keen interest in Latin American politics and often aligned himself with revolutionary movements, such as Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution in Cuba in the mid-20th century. Carpentier was jailed and exiled for his leftist political philosophies. With a developed knowledge of music, Carpentier explored musicology, publishing an in-depth study of the music of Cuba, ''La música en Cuba'' and integrated musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
''Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly'' is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two Volume (bibliography), volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and Slavery in the United States, slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War". Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary, was part of the religious Beecher family and an active Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist. She wrote the sentimental novel to depict the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love could overcome slavery. The novel focuses on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of the other characters revolve. In the United States, ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Robert Madden
Richard Robert Madden (22 August 1798 – 5 February 1886) was an Irish doctor, writer, Abolitionism in the United Kingdom, abolitionist and historian of the United Irishmen. Madden took an active role in trying to impose anti-slavery rules in Colony of Jamaica, Jamaica on behalf of the British government. Early life Madden was born at Wormwood Gate Dublin on 22 August 1798 to Edward Madden, a silk manufacturer and his wife Elizabeth (born Corey) . His father had married twice and fathered twenty-one children.Richard Robert Madden egypt-sudan-graffiti.be, Retrieved 16 October 2015 Madden attended private schools and was found a medical apprenticeship in Athboy, County Meath. He studied medicine in Paris, Italy, and St George's Hospital, London. While in Naples he became acquainted with Marguerite, Countes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuban Novelists
Cuban or Cubans may refer to: Related to Cuba * of or related to Cuba, a country in the Caribbean * Cubans, people from Cuba, or of Cuban descent ** Cuban exile, a person who left Cuba for political reasons, or a descendant thereof * Cuban Americans, citizens of the United States who are of Cuban descent * Cuban Spanish, the dialect of Cuba * Culture of Cuba * Cuban cigar * Cuban cuisine ** Cuban sandwich People with the surname * Brian Cuban (born 1961), American lawyer and activist * Mark Cuban (born 1958), American entrepreneur See also * * Kuban (other) * List of Cubans * Demographics of Cuba * Cuban Boys, a British music act * Cuban eight, a type of aerobatic maneuver * Cuban Missile Crisis * Cubane Cubane is a synthetic hydrocarbon compound with the Chemical formula, formula . It consists of eight carbon atoms arranged at the corners of a Cube (geometry), cube, with one hydrogen atom attached to each carbon atom. A solid crystalline substanc ..., a synthetic hydr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
