"This collection is a testimony of hope and endurance through the
power of writing. The experience that unites us and that we want to
share with you is the experience of exile, of belonging neither in
Chile nor the United States: our experience of existing between two
cultures and not feeling comfortable in either of them, of choosing
the path of political activism and uniting our destiny with that of
the voices of marginalized women." --Marjorie Agosin "I am
convinced that [these letters] should be made public as a testimony
of the life of women in Latin America, and of the Latina immigrants
who live in the United States. The histories interwoven in our
correspondence are not exceptions, they are the norm. These
episodes from the lives of Marjorie and Emma are part of a
voluminous tome of common histories that have been lived and
continue to be lived by Latin American women, from our grandmothers
to our daughters. --Emma Sepulveda
This collection of letters chronicles a remarkable, long-term
friendship between two women who, despite differences of religion
and ethnicity, have followed remarkably parallel paths from their
first adolescent meeting in their native Chile to their current
lives in exile as writers, academics, and political activists in
the United States. Spanning more than thirty years (1966-2000),
Agosin's and Sepulveda's letters speak eloquently on themes that
are at once personal and political--family life and patriarchy,
women's roles, the loneliness of being a religious or cultural
outsider, political turmoil in Chile, and the experience of
exile.
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