Autorretrato del Ecuador

"Although exhaustively researched, book is too detailed and not well written. Work does not focus on Cuba directly; rather, it studies the powerful influence of Cuban proslavery interests in the fight against reforms and abolition carried on by Valencia's urban patriarchs"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

A mediados del siglo XVIII la Compañía de Jesús fue objeto de una agresiva campaña que la presentaba como maléfica, ambiciosa y contraria al espíritu evangélico. Esta literatura antijesuítica se difundió también por Nueva España burlando la vigilancia del Santo Oficio, dando lugar a vivos debates entre la población y a la redacción de escritos clandestinos en defensa de la Compañía. Además de ofrecer los textos más significativos de esta apasionante polémica, en la obra se estudian los lectores que consumían estos textos manuscritos, los mecanismos de circulación entre la...

This study offers a profound study of Arrufat's play, using most recent critical trends concerning the performance aspect of the drama. It examines the genre of the drama and its relationship to the phenomenon of the Cuban Revolution, Arrufat as a Cuban playwright of the 60s and his re-writing of the Greek theme of the fratricidal fight in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes. Also contains a recent interview with Arrufat in which he describes the social circumstances surrounding the play and some of his classical re-writing techniques.

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