Gabriela Mistral S Struggle With God And Man

Author : Martin C. Taylor
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786464852

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Gabriela Mistral's Struggle with God and Man by Martin C. Taylor Pdf

Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) rose from poverty in the foothills of the Andes to become the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. This volume provides both a detailed biography of the author and a careful analysis of her writing. Chronicling the personal, psychological, and social currents of Mistral's life and times, it addresses such topics as her finances, illness, and sexuality. Literary analysis considers the sacred and secular influences on Mistral's oevre, including Catholicism, the Hebraic tradition, Theosophy, and Buddhism. By recounting Mistral's intelligence and perseverance in overcoming her life's obstacles to reach the pinnacle of her field, this book establishes her as a model for Chileans and for humanity.

Author : Martin C. Taylor
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786491148

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Gabriela Mistral's Struggle with God and Man by Martin C. Taylor Pdf

Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) rose from poverty in the foothills of the Andes to become the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. This volume provides both a detailed biography of the author and a careful analysis of her writing. Chronicling the personal, psychological, and social currents of Mistral's life and times, it addresses such topics as her finances, illness, and sexuality. Literary analysis considers the sacred and secular influences on Mistral's oevre, including Catholicism, the Hebraic tradition, Theosophy, and Buddhism. By recounting Mistral's intelligence and perseverance in overcoming her life's obstacles to reach the pinnacle of her field, this book establishes her as a model for Chileans and for humanity.

Author : Edna Aizenberg
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611688573

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On the Edge of the Holocaust by Edna Aizenberg Pdf

In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment of the Shoah by five leading figures in Argentine, Brazilian, and Chilean writing - Alberto Gerchunoff, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriela Mistral, and Joao Guimaraes Rosa - Aizenberg illuminates how Latin American intellectuals engaged with the horrific information that reached them regarding the Holocaust, including the sympathy and collaboration of their own governments with the Nazis. Aizenberg emphasizes how - through fiction, journalism, and activism - these five culture-makers opposed and fought fascism. At the same time, her readings of individual texts confront shopworn clichŽs about Latin American writing and literature, suggesting deeper and richer dimensions to many canonical works. This interdisciplinary book fills critical gaps in both Holocaust and Latin American studies, and will be of great interest to scholars and students in both fields.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410357618

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A Study Guide for Gabriela Mistral's "Serene Words" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1602 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357250

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Martín C. Taylor
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Religion in literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005625236

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Gabriela Mistral's Religious Sensibility by Martín C. Taylor Pdf

Author : Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015054055762

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Gabriela Mistral, the Teacher from the Valley of Elqui by Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015028755968

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Américas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Felix Wilfred
Publisher : ISPCK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN : 8172146450

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On the Banks of Ganges by Felix Wilfred Pdf

Author : Lillian S. Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019267298

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Modern Women Writers: McCarthy to Sagan by Lillian S. Robinson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Feminism
ISBN : OSU:32435083124743

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New Books on Women and Feminism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCR:31210024308684

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New Books on Women, Gender and Feminism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lionel Reinford
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462825639

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Tomorrow I'll Surface by Lionel Reinford Pdf

The text is composed of attributes circumventing the author’s transition and adaptation to the world’s most exciting society, after growing up in a country, which in many ways, had facilities that were at least two hundred years behind that of the modern world in 1965. The journey through academic education, family, friends, and the glorious development of Art, tells the story of perseverance, tolerance, and the quest for excellence. It also includes historical events that allow its reader to reflect back to what was happening in his personal life during those years, while at the same time, providing later generations with some knowledge of the past.

Author : David William Foster,Virginia Ramos Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Latin American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015031742763

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Modern Latin American Literature: M-Z by David William Foster,Virginia Ramos Foster Pdf

Author : Karen Patricia Peña
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Feminism in literature
ISBN : 9781905981335

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Poetry and the Realm of the Public Intellectual by Karen Patricia Peña Pdf

The volume explores how these three writers used poetry to oppose patriarchal discourse on topics ranging from marginalized peoples to issues on gender and sexuality. Poetry was a means for them to redefine their own feminized space, however difficult or odd it could turn out to be.