the letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Horan, Elizabeth > [ed]
- Creator
- Meyer, Doris > [ed]
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B5223 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, prijzen, oorlog en vrede, dictatuur, brief, bundel, Chili, Argentinië
- Description
- Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America. Mistral a self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin America's first Nobel Laureate in 1945. Ocampo was an 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 correspondence between Mistral and Ocampo reveals the private side of two very public women.These letters show 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.