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Author: Laura Restrepo
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Mar 2003
 | The Dark Bride
by Laura Restrepo, Translated by Stephen A. Lytle
HarperFlamingo
358 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 0002005204
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Columbian Cinderella
by Olga Stein
The Conquistadors came to the land that would become Columbia, conquered, and permanently altered it. Those with dark skins were no longer native peoples but primitives and heathens. The lore of the country also changed, became distorted; stories of the indigenous peoples, the Indians, turned into a mix of the traditionalùcollective wisdom, awe and superstitionùand the imported, unreflected prejudice of presumed superiority of race and religion. Read more...
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