Poetry and the Realm of the Public Intellectual: The Alternative Destinies of Gabriela Mistral, Cecilia Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos

by Pena,Karen

• ISBN13: 9781905981335
• ISBN10: 1905981333
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781040895214
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Author Biography

Karen Pena is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Poetics of Transfiguration: Projections of Self and Other in Gabriela Mistral's Mexico	p. 8
Lamentations from the Otherworld: Greek Myth and Sexuality in the Poetry of Gabriela Mistral	p. 38
A Stranger to Myself: Poetic Explorations of the (Feminine) Self in Cecilia Meireles	p. 61
Tico-Tico Leaves Fuba: US-Brazilian Narratives and Social Poetic Critiques in Cecilia Meireles (1940-1953)	p. 94
Mothers and Counter-Myths in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos: Dreams of Creative and Reproductive Choice	p. 126
Caught in the Colloquial Cell: Infanticide, Matricide, and Logocide in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos	p. 141
Conclusion	p. 159
Appendices of Longer Poems
Poems of Gabriela Mistral	p. 161
Poems of Cecilia Meireles	p. 183
Poems of Rosario Castellanos	p. 189
Life, Work, and Selected Bibliography
Gabriela Mistral	p. 204
Cecilia Meireles	p. 211
Rosario Castellanos	p. 217
Index	p. 223
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