Life and Deeds of the Famous Gentleman Don Catrin de la Fachenda

"The first English translation of the picaresque novel by the Mexican author of El Periquillo Sarniento (The Itching Parrot). The main character is a rake, catrâin (a dandy or fop), and criollo. The novel interrogates race and caste and political and social conditions in Latin America around 1810"-