Juan de la Rosa : memoirs of the last soldier of the independence movement : a novel /
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| Author / Creator: | Aguirre, Nataniel, 1843-1888. |
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| Uniform title: | Juan de la Rosa. English |
| Imprint: | New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxxviii, 329 pages) : maps |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Latin America Library of Latin America. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178159 |
| Summary: | Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent. The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the fiery crucible of the South American Independence Movement. Outraged by Juan's outspokenness against Spanish rule and his awakening political consciousness, his loyalist guardians banish him to the countryside, where he witnesses firsthand the Spaniards' violent repression and rebels' valiant resistance that crystallize both his personal destiny and that of his country. In Sergio Gabriel Waisman's fluid translation, English readers have access to Juan de la Rosa for the very first time. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxviii, 329 pages) : maps |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-329). |
| ISBN: | 9780195354454 0195354451 9786610761364 6610761361 0195113284 0195113276 9780195113273 9780195113280 |