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The “Primitive” Cecilia Valdés. A short story by  Cirilio Villaverde. A translation and introduction by Thomas Genova

open access: yesLatin American Literary Review
: The text is the first English translation of Cirilo Villaverde’s 1839 “primitive” Cecilia Valdés, a short story that the author penned decades before publishing his canonical novel by the same name.
Thomas Genova
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Foundational Frustrations: Incest and Incompletion in Cirilo Villaverde’s \u3ci\u3eCecilia Valdés\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In its canonical 1882 form, Cirilo Villaverde’s well-known novel Cecilia Valdés tells the story of the illicit relations between the creole aristocrat Leonardo Gamboa and the mulata Cecilia Valdés who, unbeknownst to them both, is his half-sister.1 The ...
Genova, Thomas
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Another Four Women: AfroCubana Entrepreneurs as Womanist Praxis

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article is focused on four Black women entrepreneurs in Cuba's lucrative bed and breakfast home‐based tourism economy, asking: (1) what intersectional factors facilitated their entrepreneurial enterprises, (2) how they conceptualize success, and (3) how their narratives illuminate patterns involving gendered race in the country's ...
L. Kaifa Roland
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CORROSIÓN ATMOSFÉRICA. CONCEPTOS BÁSICOS Y EXPERIENCIAS OBTENIDAS EN EL CLIMA TROPICAL COSTERO DE CUBA

open access: yesRevista CENIC Ciencias Químicas, 2021
En este trabajo, se resume una serie de conceptos básicos establecidos en la normativa de la especialidad de corrosión atmosférica (Normas ISO 9223:2012, ISO 9225:2012 e ISO 9266:2012).
Jenrry Viña Rodríguez   +2 more
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Human and Mouse Alzheimer's Seeds Differentially Affect Amyloid Deposition and Microglia‐Dependent Plaque Response in Aged Mice

open access: yesAging Cell, Volume 24, Issue 8, August 2025.
This study shows that human and mouse brains contain a different pool of strains that differentially affect the formation of Aβ and tau aggregates. Moreover, the murine seeds trigger an unresponsiveness microglial state, which causes the loss of plaque microglial coverage and affects the formation of amyloid plaques, leading to more severe neuritic ...
Juana Andreo‐Lopez   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

La novela abolicionista cubana. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Sin ...
Morillas Ventura, Enriqueta
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Adherence to Physical Activity and Incident Mobility Disability in Older Adults With Mobility Limitations

open access: yesJournal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, Volume 16, Issue 3, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Preservation of mobility independence is a primary goal in older adults with physical frailty and sarcopenia (PF&S). Interventions based on the combination of physical activity (PA) and nutritional counselling have been indicated as strategies for the management of this condition, although their effectiveness is not confirmed in all
Alejandro Álvarez‐Bustos   +24 more
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"Il Manzoni" en Cecilia Valdés

open access: yesRevista Chilena de Literatura, 2016
Adhiriéndose al modelo histórico-romántico de Alejandro Manzoni, Cirilo Villaverde sigue con fidelidad la estructura narrativa de I Promessi Sposi en Cecilia Valdés.
Cristina Guzzo
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Morúa and Hemetério: Reading Afrodescendant Criticism Under Stones in Post-abolition Cuba and Brazil

open access: yesLatin American Literary Review
: This article unearths two cases of Afrodescendant literary criticism from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin America. Afrodescendant writers Martín Morúa Delgado (Cuba, 1856-1910) and Hemetério José dos Santos (Brazil, 1858-1939 ...
Ingrid Brioso Rieumont
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