David Luis-Brown is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English at Claremont Graduate University and author of Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States.

The topic of Orihuela’s novel is noteworthy and timely, and its availability in English will bring much-needed attention to the Spanish original. Equally significant, both the English translation and the Spanish original raise critical issues about slavery and the process of writing about slavery." - William Luis, Vanderbilt University, author of Literary Bondage: Slavery in Cuban Narrative

David Luis-Brown is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English at Claremont Graduate University and author of Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States.

The topic of Orihuela’s novel is noteworthy and timely, and its availability in English will bring much-needed attention to the Spanish original. Equally significant, both the English translation and the Spanish original raise critical issues about slavery and the process of writing about slavery." - William Luis, Vanderbilt University, author of Literary Bondage: Slavery in Cuban Narrative

David Luis-Brown is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English at Claremont Graduate University and author of Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States.

The topic of Orihuela’s novel is noteworthy and timely, and its availability in English will bring much-needed attention to the Spanish original. Equally significant, both the English translation and the Spanish original raise critical issues about slavery and the process of writing about slavery." - William Luis, Vanderbilt University, author of Literary Bondage: Slavery in Cuban Narrative