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Selected prose and prose-poems / Gabriela Mistral ; edited and translated by Stephen Tapscott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957.
- Series:
- Texas Pan American literature in translation series.
- Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
- Texas Pan American literature in translation series
- Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. English & Spanish. 2002
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957--Translations into English.
- Mistral, Gabriela.
- Mistral, Gabriela, -- 1889-1957--Translations into English.
- Mistral, Gabriela, -- 1889-1957 -- Translations into English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Biographical Data
- Principal Publications
- PART I. Fables, Elegies, and Things of the Earth
- El mar
- The Sea
- La cebra
- The Zebra
- El faisán dorado
- The Golden Pheasant
- La harina
- Flour
- Elogio de la sal
- In Praise of Salt
- El higo
- The Fig
- La piña
- The Pineapple
- La tortuga
- The Tortoise
- Pan
- Bread
- La jirafa
- The Giraffe
- La alpaca
- The Alpaca
- El girasol
- The Sunflower
- Elogio del cristal
- In Praise of Glass
- Elogio de la arena
- In Praise of Sand
- Segundo elogio de la arena
- Second Praise-Song for the Sand
- PART II. Prose and Prose-Poems from Desolación/Desolation
- La oración de la maestra
- The Teacher's Prayer
- Los cabellos de los niños
- Children's Hair
- Poemas de las madres
- Poems of the Mothers
- I . POEMAS DE LAS MADRES
- I . POEMS OF THE MOTHERS
- II . POEMAS DE LA MADRE MÁS TRISTE
- II . POEMS OF THE SADDEST MOTHER
- Canciones de cuna
- Lullabies
- Motivos del barro
- Motifs of Clay
- La flor de cuatro pétalos
- The Four-Petaled Flower
- Poemas del éxtasis
- Poems of Ecstasy
- El arte
- Art
- Decálogo del artista
- Decalogue of the Artist
- Comentarios a poemas de Rabindranath Tagore
- Commentary on Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
- Lecturas espirituales
- Spiritual Readings
- Motivos de la Pasión
- Motifs of the Passion
- Poemas del hogar
- Poems of the Home
- Prosa escolar/Cuentos escolares
- POR QUÉ LAS CAÑAS SON HUECAS
- Scholarly Prose/Stories for Schools
- WHY BAMBOO CANES ARE HOLLOW
- POR QUÉ LAS ROSAS TIENEN ESPINAS
- WHY ROSES HAVE THORNS
- LA RAÍZ DEL ROSAL
- THE ROOT OF THE ROSEBUSH
- EL CARDO
- THE THISTLE
- LA CHARCA
- THE PUDDLE
- PART III. Lyrical Biographies
- Canto a San Francisco
- Song to Saint Francis
- Silueta de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Profile of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
- Decir el sueño
- To Declare the Dream
- Pensamientos pedagógicos
- Thoughts on Teaching
- Silueta de la india mexicana
- Profile of the Mexican Indian Woman
- Chile
- Un hombre de México: Alfonso Reyes
- A Man of Mexico: Alfonso Reyes
- Alfonsina Storni
- Invitación a la lectura de Rainer María Rilke
- An Invitation to Read Rainer Maria Rilke
- Si Napoleón no hubiese existido
- If Napoleon Had Never Existed
- José Martí
- Recado sobre Pablo Neruda
- A Message about Pablo Neruda
- Como escribo
- How I Write
- Sobre cuatro sorbos de agua
- On Four Sips of Water
- La palabra maldita
- The Forbidden Word
- Mis ideas sociales
- My Social Beliefs
- Translator's Remarks
- Index of Titles.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-292-79746-X
- OCLC:
- 298789122
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