Querido Diego Te Abraza Quiela By Elena Poniatowska

Author : Elena Poniatowska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105217175384

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Querido Diego, Te Abraza Quiela by Elena Poniatowska by Elena Poniatowska Pdf

One of the threads that runs through Elena Poniatowska’s oeuvre is that of foreigners who have fallen in love with Mexico and its people. This is certainly the case of Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela--a brief novel (so short it was originally published in its entirety in Octavio Paz’s literary magazine Vuelta). The Russian exile and painter Angelina Beloff writes from the cold and impoverished post-war Paris to Diego Rivera, her spouse of over ten years. Beloff sends these letters to which there is no response during a time when the emancipation of women has broken many of the standard models and the protagonist struggles to fashion her own. Elena Poniatowska has (re)created these letters and within them one finds the unforgettable testimony of an artist and her lover during the valuable crossroads of a new time when Diego Rivera was forging a new life in his native country. In this edition, Nathanial Gardner comments on the truth and fiction Poniatowska has woven together to form this compact, yet rich, modern classic. Using archives in London, Paris and Mexico City (including Angelina’s correspondence held in Frida Kahlo’s own home) as well as interviews from the final remaining characters who knew the real Angelina, Gardner offers a mediation of the text and its historical groundings as well as critical commentary. This edition will appeal to both students and scholars of Latin American Studies as well as lovers of Mexican Literature and Art in general.

Author : Elena Poniatowska
Publisher : Aris & Phillips Hispanic Class
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780856688805

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Dear Diego by Elena Poniatowska Pdf

Fictionalized story of Diego Rivera based on letters written by his first wife, Angelina Beloff, after he moved away from Paris (and her) to Mexico. English and Spanish on facing pages.

Author : Elena Poniatowska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:232719460

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Querido Diego, Te Abraza Quiela by Elena Poniatowska Pdf

Author : Eunice Myers,Ginette Adamson
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0819175935

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Continental, latin-american and francophone women writers by Eunice Myers,Ginette Adamson Pdf

Author : Claudia Schaefer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015025279145

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Textured Lives by Claudia Schaefer Pdf

Mexican culture has long been the object of scholarly interest and popular curiosity, notably since the 1910 Revolution and most recently in the 1990 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit "Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries". During these eight decades in the evolution of the modern Mexican nation, shifting relations of power have constantly met with voices of opposition that have challenged the national vision of progress and unity. Textured Lives explores some of these cracks in the Mexican national edifice by examining the works of women in literature and the arts, with focus on individuals who represent crucial phases in Mexico's cultural history: Frida Kahlo and postrevolutionary nationalism, Rosario Castellanos and the promises of institutionalized revolution, Elena Poniatowska and the legacy of 1968, and Angeles Mastretta and the "golden age" of the oil boom. Schaefer argues that exploring the social context of cultural representation highlights the tensions between master narratives and these women's transgressive forays into those spaces of power. Combining literary theory, cultural analysis, gender study, and theories of artistic representation, her book embraces painting, literary journalism, the epistolary novel, and autobiographical narrative to question the traditional forms of these genres as well as to debate the boundaries between the self and the national identity.

Author : Elena Poniatowska
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781566393454

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Nothing, Nobody by Elena Poniatowska Pdf

September 19, 1985: A powerful earthquake hits Mexico City in the early morning hours. As the city collapses, the government fails to respond. Long a voice of social conscience, prominent Mexican journalist Elena Poniatowska chronicles the disintegration of the city's physical and social structure, the widespread grassroots organizing against government corruption and incompetence, and the reliency of the human spirit. As a transformative moment in the life of mexican society, the earthquake is as much a component of the country's current crisis as the 1982 debt crisis, the problematic economic of the last ten years, and the recent elections. In masterfully weaving together a multiplicity of voices, Poniatowska has reasserted the inherent value and latent power of people working together. Punctuated by Poniatowska's own experiences and observations, these post disaster testimonies speak of the disruption of families and neighborhoods, of the destruction of homes and hospitals, of mutilation and death—the collective loss of a city. Drawing the reader dramatically into the scene of national horror through dozens of personal stories, Poniatowska demonstrates the importance of courage and self-reliance in redeeming life from chaos.

Author : Elena Poniatowska
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826341233

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Tinisima by Elena Poniatowska Pdf

This fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti is a fascinating story of the complex woman caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II era.

Author : Valeria Luiselli
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566893558

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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli Pdf

Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014 Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014 "An extraordinary new literary talent."--The Daily Telegraph "In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly student years to early motherhood and a loving marriage--and then, in the book's second half, wilder and something else altogether, the fearless, half-mad imagination of youth, I might as well call it—has rarely been so freshly, charmingly, and unforgettably portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a masterful, entirely original writer."--Francisco Goldman In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen recalls his friendship with Lorca, and the young woman he saw in the windows of passing trains. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. "Luiselli's haunting debut novel, about a young mother living in Mexico City who writes a novel looking back on her time spent working as a translator of obscure works at a small independent press in Harlem, erodes the concrete borders of everyday life with a beautiful, melancholy contemplation of disappearance. . . . Luiselli plays with the idea of time and identity with grace and intuition." —Publishers Weekly

Author : Nathanial Gardner,Nathanial Eli Gardner
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 303911199X

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Through Their Eyes by Nathanial Gardner,Nathanial Eli Gardner Pdf

Even though Elena Poniatowska is considered to be one of the most important female writers in present-day Mexico, few book-length studies have been dedicated to her work. This book focuses on the writings of Elena Poniatowska and also on the work of her former students Silvia Molina and Rosa Nissán. A brief history of the literary workshop that links the three together is also provided. Although the three writers are quite different in several respects, they share one common element that is central to their writings: the depiction of marginal members of society. With reference to Subaltern Studies this study analyses how the subaltern is represented in the works of each writer.

Author : Aníbal González
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292779006

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Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel by Aníbal González Pdf

The Latin American Literary Boom was marked by complex novels steeped in magical realism and questions of nationalism, often with themes of surreal violence. In recent years, however, those revolutionary projects of the sixties and seventies have given way to quite a different narrative vision and ideology. Dubbed the new sentimentalism, this trend is now keenly elucidated in Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel. Offering a rich account of the rise of this new mode, as well as its political and cultural implications, Aníbal González delivers a close reading of novels by Miguel Barnet, Elena Poniatowska, Isabel Allende, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Gabriel García Márquez, Antonio Skármeta, Luis Rafael Sánchez, and others. González proposes that new sentimental novels are inspired principally by a desire to heal the division, rancor, and fear produced by decades of social and political upheaval. Valuing pop culture above the avant-garde, such works also tend to celebrate agape—the love of one's neighbor—while denouncing the negative effects of passion (eros). Illuminating these and other aspects of post-Boom prose, Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel takes a fresh look at contemporary works.

Author : Emily Hind
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230113497

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Femmenism and the Mexican Woman Intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska by Emily Hind Pdf

Hind draws on poetry, short stories, plays, novels, photographs, personal correspondence, advertising, and interviews to make visible the anti-feminine tendencies in femmenism and to imagine a femmenism that will appeal to the next generation of women.

Author : Elena Poniatowska
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826335829

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Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska by Elena Poniatowska Pdf

The first English edition of the work of one of Mexico's most admired women writers.

Author : Betram D. Wolfe
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781461707844

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The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera by Betram D. Wolfe Pdf

Known for his grand public murals, Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is one of Mexico's most revered artists. His paintings are marked by a unique fusion of European sophistication, revolutionary political turmoil, and the heritage and personality of his native country. Based on extensive interviews with the artist, his four wives (including Frida Kahlo), and his friends, colleagues, and opponents, The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera captures Rivera's complex personality—-sometimes delightful, frequently infuriating and always fascinating—-as well as his development into one of the twentieth century's greatest artist.

Author : Kristine Ibsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313029844

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The Other Mirror by Kristine Ibsen Pdf

During the last decade, women's narrative has become a recognized force in Mexican letters. The essays in this collection explore the recent work of nine contemporary Mexican women writers. Many of the works have been translated into English; some, like Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, have become international best sellers. The unprecedented commercial success of these novels has generated mixed reactions: at the same time that the secondary status afforded women's narrative has come to be questioned in many academic circles, some authors are dissociating themselves from women's writing. The essays in this volume address these issues, providing a much needed contribution to the study of women's narrative.

Author : Elena Poniatowska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0967565898

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The Heart of the Artichoke by Elena Poniatowska Pdf

In this collection of stories, Poniatowska weaves together the disparate lives that make up Mexico's rich cultural tapestry. These are stories about servants and matriarchs, street sweepers and sorceresses, shop keepers, nannies, mothers, travelers, prostitutes, and drug addicts. They are stories of broken lives and broken hearts, of betrayal and rebirth. The language is melodic, sensual, plain, coarse, aristocratic. It reflects the varied idioms of Mexico's diverse social classes. Poniatowska constructs characters of immense complexity, then slowly peels away the emotional and psychological layers to expose their greatest vulnerability. Nowhere is this more visible than in the title story The Heart of the Artichoke.