Josefa Marquesa Del Pumar (Spanish) by Maria Luisa Caballero Franco, Editor: Conchita Franco Serri Ed.M., J.D.
	List Price:   $40.00 Unit Price:   $40.00 You Save:   $0.00 (0%) ISBN-10:   0692377972 ISBN-13:   9780692377970 Publisher:   Santa Clara Press Category:   Non-Fiction, Spanish Books Pub. Date:   January 2015 Pages:   336 Format:   Paperback
Description/Notes
Spanish Language Only. Josefa Marquesa del Pumar contains 103 pages of unknown primary source transcriptions from archival sources about a Venezuelan royal emigre exiled by General Simon Bolivar. Published in Spanish, the book reveals a historical mystery from the pages of oblivion. The book's transcribed 19th century documents reveal the voice of a Marchioness, Dona Josefa Lucia del Pumar y Callejo, via letters she wrote to King Ferdinand VII recounting the price of her loyalty to him, and Spain: the loss of her two military Spanish husbands, a Baron and a Count, her fortune, security and status. She, consequently, requests a pension for her fidelity. Through her letters, we are informed of the details of her family saga, living in physical peril during revolutionary times and split family loyalties in Venezuela and Puerto Rico from 1814 to the 1830s. It is a family saga, historical drama, offering scholars a rare mix of fascinating and yet, serious human moral dilemmas, making it compelling reading that stimulates the curious mind to contemplate further investigation. This interdisciplinary book is also a fascinating and riveting account of the life and voice of a young woman, a widow with five young daughters in the midst of life's most dangerous political liaisons; the perilous life of a courageous female royalist in hiding; a personal and intimate account which facilitates the interpretation, study and evaluation of the epoch's intersectionalities of gender and class with historiographical political debates. The heroine, this passionate and fearless, feminist character, Josefa Lucia Marquesa del Pumar y Callejo, is a newly discovered jewel in the academe; from a pedagogical perspective, she is a clear winner in creating an attractive syllabus for any college or university's history class, women's and gender studies curriculum, and/or Latin-American and Caribbean social, psychological and cultural studies course. The book is written in Spanish.