This America of ours : the letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
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This America of ours : the letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
University of Texas Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-347) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
2005 - Best Book Translation Prize - New England Council of Latin American Studies
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This collection of the previously unpublished correspondence between Mistral and Ocampo reveals the private side of two very public women.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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part One. Letters 1926-1939
Part Two. Letters 1940-1952
Part Three. Letters 1953-1956
Appendix: Added Writings
"Message to Victoria Ocampo in Argentina," by Gabriela Mistral
"Victoria Ocampo," by Gabriela Mistral
"About Gabriela," by Victoria Ocampo and Roger Caillois
"And Lucila Who Spoke like a River," by Victoria Ocampo
"Gabriela Mistral in Her Letters," by Victoria Ocampo
"Victoria Ocampo on Her Friendship with Gabriela Mistral"
Chronology
Biographical Dictionary
Works Cited
Index
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