Spain in "Cecilia Valdés"
Abstract
Because in the nineteenth century Cuba had not yet become independent, like the rest of Spanish America, the development of a national literature followed a different process, as exemplified by the novel Cecilia Valdés, published in 1882. Its author, Cirilo Villaverde, was active in the struggle against Spanish domination and suffered prison and exile as a result, and his novel, which shows the Spanish government and Spaniards under a negative light, was however connected to Spanish literature, whose authors he quoted in multiple epigraphs. Villaverde's work shows that the emerging Cuban national literature was against Spain politically, but did not aspire to break with peninsular literature to establish its independence.
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