Article: Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba: The Travels of Santa Cruz y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin.(Review)

Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba: The Travels of Santa Cruz y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin. By ADRIANA MENDEZ RODENAS. Nashville, TN, and London: Vanderbilt University Press. 1998. xii + 317 pp. $34.95.

This literary biography of the Cuban aristocrat Maria Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, the Condesa Merlin (1789-1852), is meticulously researched and beautifully produced. The Condesa did not publish very much, and what she did publish she largely plagiarized. She spent most of her life in France and wrote in French, so it is hardly surprising that she is not often included in the Cuban literary canon. However, Adriana Mendez Rodenas alerts us to the ...

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