This America of ours : the letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo / edited and translated by Elizabeth Horan and Doris Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957.

Contributor:

Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979.

Horan, Elizabeth, 1956-

Meyer, Doris.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957--Correspondence.

Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979--Correspondence.

Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957--Translations into English.

Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979--Translations into English.

Authors, Chilean--20th century--Correspondence.

Authors, Argentine--20th century--Correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 This collection of the previously unpublished correspondence between Mistral and Ocampo reveals the private side of two very public women.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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE. LETTERS 1926 –1939

PART TWO. LETTERS 1940 –1952

PART THREE. LETTERS 1953 –1956

APPENDIX: ADDED WRITINGS

Chronology

Biographical Dictionary

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-347) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79883-0

OCLC:

300804474