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Women - Recados (Paperback)
Gabriela Mistral, Isabel Allende, Jacqueline Nanfito
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Non-fiction. Latino/a Studies. Edited by Marjorie Agosin &
Jacqueline C. Nanfito. Best known for her Nobel-Prize winning
poetry, Gabriela Mistral also wrote prose, including the recados in
this collection. These brief essays were, for the most part, first
published in newspapers in Latin America. Mistral intended for them
to be a kind of letter destined for a larger and more inclusive
readership than that reached by her poetry. Writing about the women
she admired, these recados provide a glimpse into Mistral's private
world and reveal the strong emotional ties she had to women, as
well as her feelings on equality and feminism.
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Virginia's Sisters (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf, Zelda Fitzgerald, Anna Akhmatova, Marina TSvetaeva, Gabriela Mistral, …
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A unique anthology of short stories and poetry by feminist
contemporaries of Virginia Woolf, who were writing about work,
discrimination, war, relationships and love in the early part of
the 20th Century. Includes works by English and American writers
Zelda Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Radclyffe Hall,
Katherine Mansfield, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Edith Wharton, and
Virginia Woolf, alongside their recently rediscovered 'sisters'
from around the world. This book offers a diverse and international
array of over 20 literary gems from women writers living in
Bulgaria, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Italy, Palestine, Romania,
Russia, Spain and Ukraine.
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Éxtasis / Ecstasy
Gabriela Mistral
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R205
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A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her
native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying
sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957)
is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in Latin
American literature of the last century. The "Locas mujeres" poems
collected here are among Mistral's most complex and compelling,
exploring facets of the self "in extremis"--poems marked by the
wound of blazing catastrophe and its aftermath of mourning.
From disquieting humor to balladlike lyricism to folkloric wisdom,
these pieces enact a tragic sense of life, depicting "madwomen" who
are anything but mad. Strong and intensely human, Mistral's poetic
women confront impossible situations to which no sane response
exists. This groundbreaking collection presents poems from
Mistral's final published volume as well as new editions of
posthumous work, featuring the first English-language appearance of
many essential poems. "Madwomen" promises to reveal a profound poet
to a new generation of Anglophone readers while reacquainting
Spanish readers with a stranger, more complicated "madwoman" than
most have ever known.
"With his new translations . . . Stephen Tapscott makes great
strides toward redefining Mistral, her work, and her life for the
North American reader. This collection denies the critical urge to
allow Mistral's most celebrated poetry to trump her multifaceted
achievements and broad intellectual interests. For the anglophone
Mistral aficionado, Selected Prose and Prose-Poems is a breath of
fresh air from a window on unexplored terrain." -- Bloomsbury
Review "Tapscott's volume includes a rich variety of short texts--
literary profiles, essays, stories for children, prose poems,
biographies of religious figures, small fables extolling the
romance of ordinary things, and writings on education and current
events-- and provides an excellent introduction to Mistral's prose.
. . . [His] translations of Mistral's 'prose as tight as verse' are
both lyrical and precise." -- Women's Review of Books
The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for
Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is
often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on
behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children,
and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of
philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a
book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural
boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose
pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the
history of literary modernism in a tradition that runs from
Baudelaire, the North American moderns, and the South American
postmodernistas. It's a book that will be eye-opening and
informative to the general readeras well as to students of gender
studies, cultural studies, literary history, and poetry.
This Spanish-English bilingual volume gathers the most famous
and representative prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, which have
not been as readily available to English-only readers as her
poetry. The pieces are grouped into four sections. "Fables,
Elegies, and Things of the Earth" includes fifteen of Mistral's
most accessible prose-poems. "Prose and Prose-Poems from Desolacio
n / Desolation [1922]" presents all the prose from Mistral's first
important book. "Lyrical Biographies" are Mistral's poetic
meditations on Saint Francis and Sor Juana de la Cruz. "Literary
Essays, Journalism, 'Messages'" collects pieces that reveal
Mistral's opinions on a wide range of subjects, including the
practice of teaching; the writers Alfonso Reyes, Alfonsina Storni,
Rainer Maria Rilke, and Pablo Neruda; Mistral's own writing
practices; and her social beliefs. Editor/translator Stephen
Tapscott rounds out the volume with a chronology of Mistral's life
and a brief introduction to her career and prose.
Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential
and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America.
Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who
was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin America's first
Nobel Laureate in 1945. Ocampo, a stunning Argentine woman of
wealth, wrote hundreds of essays and founded the first-rate
literary journal Sur. Though of very different backgrounds, their
deep commitment to what they felt was "their" America forged a
unique intellectual and emotional bond between them. This
collection of the previously unpublished correspondence between
Mistral and Ocampo reveals the private side of two very public
women. In these letters (as well as in essays that are included in
an appendix), we see what Mistral and Ocampo thought about each
other and about the intellectual and political atmosphere of their
time (including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the
dictatorships of Latin America) and particularly how they
negotiated the complex issues of identity, nationality, and gender
within their wide-ranging cultural connections to both the Americas
and Europe.
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (1889-1957) fue suplantada literiamente por
Gabriela Mistral. El titulo Tala alude al necesario despojo para
emprender la escritura, definido por el corte y la carencia. Lagar
(lugar donde se pisa la uva) figura como tropo de produccion
poetica que se nutre de restos experienciales.
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