La novela Boves, el urogallo aborda el tema de la Guerra de Independencia no solo desde una óptica narrativa e imaginativa, sino además como fenómeno político y social que implicó el cambio de una clase dominante por otra y expresó, en su lucha interna, los grandes resentimientos sociales que venían acumulados por las restricciones contenidas en las Leyes de Indias. La guerra, entonces, servirá como la esclusa que utilizarán las clases desposeídas (negros, pardos, zambos, mulatos) para acabar con el orden establecido e igualarse socialmente, aunque lleven en su interior las mismas contradicciones y expectativas que condujeron al mantuano a rebelarse contra el poder metropolitano.
The novel, Boves, el urogallo (Boves, the Urogallo) approaches the War for Independence, not only from a narrative and imaginative viewpoint, but also as a political and social phenomenon that implied the exchange of one dominant class for another, and expressed, in its internal struggle, the great social resentments that had been accumulating due to restrictions in the Laws of the Indians. The war, therefore, would serve as the floodgate that the destitute classes, which included people who were black, brown, had Indian or mulatto and black parents and black and white parents, would use to do away with the established social order, even though they carried inside themselves the same contradictions and expectations that led the Mantuanos* to rebel against the metropolitan power.
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