Gabriela Mistral : the audacious traveler / edited by Marjorie Agosín.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agosín, Marjorie.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 40.

Research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957--Political and social views.

Mistral, Gabriela.

Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957--Travel.

Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957.

Travel.

Political and social views.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 308 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2003]

Summary:

Gabriela Mistral is the only Latin American woman writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Even so, her extraordinary achievements in poetry, narrative, and political essays remain largely untold. Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler thoughtfully explores the complex legacy of Mistral and the ways in which her work continues to define the Americas. Edited by Marjorie Agosin, Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler is the first work to explore the totality of Mistral's vision and her political writings. It addresses her leadership as a representative of Chile during the drafting of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and her work on behalf of a unified American hemisphere. Throughout, she is depicted as a courageous social activist whose writings reveal a passionate voice for freedom and justice. Here, readers will begin to understand the important personal, political, and social dimensions of Mistral's work for the first time. They will find Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler an insightful collection dedicated to the life and work of an inspiring and original artist.

Contents:

Toward a common destiny on the American continent : the Pan-Americanism of Gabriela Mistral / Jonathan Cohen

A wor[l]d full of Xs and Ks : parables of human rights in the prose of Gabriela Mistral / Joseph R. Slaughter

Gabriela Mistral as teacher / Verónica Darer

Gabriela Mistral : meritorious member of the Sandinista army / Patricia Varas

The death of the beloved in the poetry of Gabriela Mistral / Eugenia Muñoz

Jewish issues and Gabriela Mistral / Darrell B. Lockhart

A hungry wolf : the mask and the spectacle of gender in Gabriela Mistral / Ivonne Gordon Vailakis

Walking south : Gabriela Mistral's Chilean journey / Santiago Daydí-Tolson

The inconvenient heroine : Gabriela Mistral in Mexico / Diana Anhalt

Gabriela Mistral and Brazil : a journey of fortitude / Ana Pizarro

Translating the hidden machine : Gabriela Mistral in English / Randall Couch

Constructions of the self : the personal letters of Gabriela Mistral / Particia Rubio

Mirror to the nation : posthumous portraits of Gabriela Mistral / Elizabeth Horan

Gabriela Mistral's political commentaries / Emma Sepúlveda

Gabriela Mistral and the United States of America / Luis Vargas Saavedra

The walking geography of Gabriela Mistral / Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0896802302

OCLC:

52194507