%0 Journal Article 
%A Álvarez Amell, Diana
%T The strange case of Narciso: Cirilo Villaverde’s politics
%D 2017
%@ 1889-5611
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/33800
%X The political views and actions of Cirilo Villaverde have received short shrift
in contemporary scholarship. The sketchiness has led to confusion about Villaverde’s
politics. While much critical work has been devoted to the racial conundrum in “Cecilia
Valdés”, to a large measure it has omitted analysis of the author’s views on the wider
issue of Cuba’s political fate. Notwithstanding Villaverde’s active involvement as a
political actor, the ideas vehemently expressed in his political writings, he has been
often identified, without great scrutiny to his writings, as an “anexionista”, in large part
due to his association with Narciso López. Reading Villaverde’s writings, as well as
those of other Cuban political actors of the time, makes the historical confusion that
surrounds López and Villaverde’s political beliefs perplexing. Villaverde to the last
defended his own belief in Cuban independence, and several times wrote in defense
of López. Cubans and Americans have debated López’s intentions and Villaverde’s
politics, either ignoring or disregarding original sources such as Villaverde’s published
statements that are deemed unreliable, pointedly when they contradict or create fissures
in the American historical grand narrative.

%K Cirilo Villaverde
%K Cuba
%K Politics
%K Narciso López
%K Annexationism
%K Independence
%K Filibuster
%K Ideology
%K 19th century
%K United States
%K Romanticism
%K History
%K Memory
%K Política
%K Anexionismo
%K Independencia
%K Filibustero
%K Ideología
%K Siglo XIX
%K Estados Unidos
%K Romanticismo
%K Historia
%K Memoria
%K Arte
%K Art
%K Historia
%K History
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
%K Filología
%K Philology
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala