Victoria Ocampo

Author : Doris Meyer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292759138

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Victoria Ocampo by Doris Meyer Pdf

The "first lady of Argentine letters," Victoria Ocampo is best known as the architect of cultural bridges between the American and European continents and as the founder and director of Sur, an influential South American literary review and publishing house. In this first biographical study in English of "la superbe Argentine," originally published in 1979, Doris Meyer considers Victoria Ocampo's role in introducing European and North American writers and artists to the South American public—through the pages of her review, through translations of their work, and through lecture tours and recitations. She examines Ocampo's personal relationships with some of the most illustrious writers and thinkers of this century—including José Ortega y Gasset, Rabindranath Tagore, Count Hermann Keyserling, Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Monnier, Vita Sackville-West, Gabriela Mistral, and many others. And she portrays an extraordinary woman who rebelled against the strictures of family and social class to become a leading personality in the fight for women's rights in Argentina and, later, a steadfast opponent of the Perón regime, for which she was sent to jail in 1953. Fifteen of Victoria Ocampo's essays, selected from her more than ten volumes of prose and translated by Doris Meyer, complement the biographical study.

Author : Craig E. Stephenson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000785906

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The Correspondence of Victoria Ocampo, Count Keyserling and C. G. Jung by Craig E. Stephenson Pdf

The Correspondence of Victoria Ocampo, Count Keyserling and C. G. Jung centres on two pivotal meetings: Victoria Ocampo and Hermann von Keyserling’s in 1929, and Ocampo and Carl Gustav Jung’s in 1934. The first section of the book chronicles these encounters, which proved to be key moments in the lives of the players and had repercussions both private and public. The later sections consist of the correspondence and other writings that preceded and followed these meetings, translated from French, German, and Spanish, much of it for the first time. Jung framed Keyserling’s account of the encounter with Ocampo as "one of the most beautiful animus-anima stories I have ever heard." But that story, told here from the three points of view of the pioneering Argentine intellectual, the Baltic German philosopher, and the Swiss founder of analytical psychology, can also be read in the contexts of early-twentieth-century feminism and of gender and sexual politics, of the colonizing European gaze on the Americas, of Argentina and its cultural complexes, of typological impasses, and of Eros and the power of words. The fraught relationships and power dynamics among three influential figures will be of interest to analytical psychologists, historians of psychological disciplines and of South America, as well as general readers.

Author : Victoria Ocampo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Latin American letters
ISBN : UOM:39015043767667

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Victoria Ocampo by Victoria Ocampo Pdf

Presents the powerful Argentine writer and publisher through translations of portions of her autobiography, letters, and essays.

Author : Francine Masiello
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 080323158X

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Between civilization & barbarism by Francine Masiello Pdf

Evoking the famous watchwords of Argentine president Domingo Sarmiento (1868–74), Between Civilization and Barbarism explores the positioning of women within the Argentine nation and argues that women neither sought alliance with the “civilizing” agenda of leading statesmen nor found identity in the extreme poses of “barbarism,” to which some intellectuals had condemned them. Instead, women used literary and political texts to surpass the tightly outlined roles assigned to them. Beginning with literary and journalistic texts written by and about women from the time of Sarmiento, Francine Masiello traces strategic shifts in the discourse on gender at moments of national crisis. She considers not only novels and guides to female behavior written by and for privileged women but also newspapers and political tracts produced by women of the working class. Extending her study into the urban expansion and modernization of the 1920s, Masiello explores the nature of gender relations posited in treatises on crime and public disorder and in the texts of avant-garde and social-realist writers. In addressing such representations of women, as well as the effects of ideology and history on writing, Masiello offers bold new insights into the development of Latin American women’s literature and illuminates the role of women in forming the culture of present-day Argentina.

Author : Gabriela Mistral,Victoria Ocampo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0292778600

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This America of Ours by Gabriela Mistral,Victoria Ocampo Pdf

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.

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314101

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Encyclopedia of the Essay by Tracy Chevalier Pdf

This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies

Author : Claire Emilie Martin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031404948

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The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century by Claire Emilie Martin Pdf

Author : Susnigdha Dey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015032736004

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Victoria Ocampo, an Exercise in Indo-Argentine Relationship by Susnigdha Dey Pdf

Papers presented at an international seminar on Victoria Ocampo, 1891-1979, Spanish author from Argentina, organized by the Jawaharlal Nehru University in collaboration with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in New Delhi in Nov. 1991.

Author : John King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521268493

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Sur by John King Pdf

This book tells the story of Sur, Argentina's foremost literary and cultural journal of the twentieth century. Victoria Ocampo (its founder and lifelong editor) and Jorge Luis Borges (a regular and influential contributor) feature prominently in the story, while the contributions of other major writers (including Eduardo Mallea, William Faulkner, André Breton, Virginia Woolf, Alfonso Reyes, Octavio Paz, Waldo Frank, Aldous Huxley and Graham Greene) are discussed. Politically speaking, Sur represented a certain brand of liberalism, a resistance to populism and mass culture, and an attachment to elitist values which offended against the more dominant phases of Argentine thought, from Peronism to the varied forms of nationalism, socialism and Marxism. Dr King examines the journal's roots, its development and its demise, relating it to other journals circulating at the time, and highlighting vital issues debated in its pages, such as Argentine attitudes towards fascism during the Second World War.

Author : Myriam Yvonne Jehenson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438407852

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Latin-American Women Writers by Myriam Yvonne Jehenson Pdf

This book provides a much needed grouping of Latin-American women, emphasizing their differences—the diversity of their cultural backgrounds, socio-economic conditions, and literary strategies—as well as their commonalities. Humble writers of the Spanish and Portuguese testimonio and sophisticated postmodernist authors alike are contextualized within a "matriheritage of founding discourses."

Author : Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Authors, Argentine
ISBN : UOM:39015019938839

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In Your Blossoming Flower-garden by Ketaki Kushari Dyson Pdf

This Book, The Result Of Extensive Researches In Three Continents, Tells The Fascinating Story Of That Rare Encounter And Explores Its Numerous Ramifications, Including The Crucial Role Played In It By Leonard Elmhirst, TagoreýS English Secretary Who Had Accompanied Him To Argentina And Who Is Distinguished In His Own Right As One Of The Builders Of Sriniketan And As The Co-Founder, With His Wife, Of Dartington Hall In Devon. There Is A Wealth Of Documentary Evidence, Including The Presentation Of Valuable Archival Material, The Entire Known Tagore-Ocampo Correspondence With Full Annotations, And Thirty-Three Black And White And Coloured Plates, Some Of Which Have Never Been Published Before.

Author : Fiona Joy Mackintosh
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1855660954

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Childhood in the Works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik by Fiona Joy Mackintosh Pdf

In the final analysis, Ocampo's works achieve equilibrium between childhood and age, whereas Pizarnik's much-discussed poetic crisis of exile from language itself parallels her deep sense of anxiety at being exiled from the world of childhood."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sara Castro-klaren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000010152

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Women's Writing In Latin America by Sara Castro-klaren Pdf

In the last two decades Latin American literature has received great critical acclaim in the English-speaking world, although attention has been focused primarily on the classic works of male literary figures such as Borges, Paz, and Cortázar. More recently, studies have begun to evaluate the works of established women writers such as Sor Juana Iné

Author : María Rosa Lojo
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780228009870

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Free Women in the Pampas by María Rosa Lojo Pdf

A feminist pioneer, writer, and patron of the arts and literature in Buenos Aires, Victoria Ocampo (1890–1979) was a larger-than-life personality of legendary vitality. A key protagonist in Argentina’s rise to world-class status in the arts and sciences, Ocampo leveraged her wealth and social status to found Sur (1931–92), the internationally influential journal of literature, culture, and ideas. Ocampo personally invited many intellectual and artistic celebrities to visit Buenos Aires. Most were men. Some, endowed with egos as outsized as their reputations, tripped and fell into sentimental imbroglios with the strong-willed and beautiful Ocampo. In Free Women in the Pampas the ups and downs of her passionate friendships, debates, and misunderstandings with poet Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, and the writers Pierre Drieu de la Rochelle, Hermann von Keyserling, and Waldo Frank are witnessed by the fictional Carmen Brey, a Galician-Spanish immigrant whose story is skilfully interwoven with that of Ocampo. Carmen’s sympathetic but incisive gaze puts her friend Victoria into perspective against a larger vision of Argentina. Carmen’s adventures lead her to social-justice writer María Rosa Oliver, the wilder side of the 1920s literary avant-garde (and the now-canonical authors Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, and Leopoldo Marechal), the Mapuche people of the pampa, and a ten-year-old Evita Ibarguren, later famous as Eva Perón. Against this broad, inclusive backdrop, the novel vividly depicts Victoria Ocampo’s struggle with the strictures of class and gender to find her own voice and vocation as a public intellectual.

Author : Cynthia Lucy Stephens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781855663497

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The Borges Enigma by Cynthia Lucy Stephens Pdf

Borges once stated that he had never created a character: 'It's always me, subtly disguised'. This book focuses on the ways in which Borges uses events and experiences from his own life, in order to demonstrate how they become the principal structuring motifs of his work. It aims to show how these experiences, despite being 'heavily disguised', are crucial components of some of Borges's most canonical short stories, particularly from the famous collections Ficciones and El Aleph. Exploring the rich tapestry of symmetries, doubles and allusions and the roles played by translation and the figure of the creator, the book provides new readings of these stories, revealing their hidden personal, emotional and spiritual dimensions. These insights shed fresh light on Borges's supreme literary craftsmanship and the intimate puzzles of his fictions.