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Juan de la Rosa
Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement: Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement
by Nataniel Aguirre, Sergio Gabriel Waisman
368 Pages, Published 1998 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-535445-4, ISBN: 0-19-535445-1

"I don't know, I can't say how I defended myself. ... One time I felt something ticklish under my arm, but only later did I realize that the bayonet of some chapetón had scraped my side. "At the end, I found myself alone in the middle of the Altiplano. The cavalry was offin the distance, heading toward Sicasica, chasing down the chapetones who had fled. "Don Esteban had to orderus one by one to meet with the officers, because we did ..."

Dreams and Realities
Selected Fiction of Juana Manuela Gorriti
by Juana Manuela Gorriti, Sergio Gabriel Waisman, Francine Masiello
Published 2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-518428-0, ISBN: 0-19-518428-9

Library of Latin America Ser.
Juan de la Rosa: Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement
by Nataniel Aguirre, Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Published 1999
ISBN-13: 978-1-280-76136-2, ISBN: 1-280-76136-9

Dreams and Realities
Selected Fiction of Juana Manuela Gorriti by Juana Manuela Gorriti, Sergio Gabriel Waisman and Francine Masiello
by Juana Manuela Gorriti, Sergio Gabriel Waisman, Francine Masiello
306 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press, Usa
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-972869-5, ISBN: 0-19-972869-0

"In a style that surely recalls the journeys of exile suffered in life by Juana Manuela Gorriti, Hernán and the luckless Rosa are banished from protection by law. Greed, dating from colonial times, continues to drive their misfortune. This impasse is often resolved as a conflict of tongues. Rosa is swayed by the deceptive language of the colonial elite and so rejects Hernán; in turn, Hernán is persuaded by rumors of an African slave ..."