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Cosas Añejas: Tradiciones y Episodios de Santo Domingo

Cosas Añejas: Tradiciones y Episodios de Santo Domingo

Penson, Cesar Nicolas
Tejada, Rita Maria

Paperback

Literary CriticismCentral American History

Publisher Price: $40.00

ISBN10: 193476891X
ISBN13: 9781934768914
Publisher: Stockcero
Published: Jan 21 2018
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Spanish

Cosas añejas constitutes one of the most representative example of XIXth Century Dominican Literature, and the main production of César Nicolás Penson (Santo Domingo, 1855-1901).

In this work Penson gathers eleven Dominican XVII and XIX Century stories, that had been previously limited to legal files or folk spoken lore, and recreates them in a well structured corpus in what is known as the «Tradiciones genre, in the same line as Peruvian author Ricardo Palma's «Tradiciones Peruanas . The «Tradiciones appear in the XIX Century with the explicit purpose of safekeeping the past and traditions of the Latin American Creole society while collecting and redrafting popular tales, legends and articles on popular customs. The recreated stories mix facts and fiction, fantasy with popular superstition, in an educated language spattered with popular expresions, proverbs and adages, in a well balanced mixture of seriousness, satire and irony aimed to be regarded as an entertaining social criticism.Thus becoming vivid portraits of the members of those societies, of their lives, customs, their ways of feeling and thinking. This explains the warm reception obtained, both by Palma and Penson, when first published.

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