Title This America of ours : the letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo / edited and translated by Elizabeth Horan and Doris Meyer

Published Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 377 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Letters 1926-1939 -- Letters 1940-1952 -- Letters 1953-1956 -- Message to Victoria Ocampo in Argentina / by Gabriela Mistral -- Victoria Ocampo / by Gabriela Mistral -- About Gabriela / by Victoria Ocampo and Roger Caillois -- And Lucila who spoke like a river / by Victoria Ocampo -- Gabriela Mistral in her letters / by Victoria Ocampo -- Victoria Ocampo on her friendship with Gabriela Mistral Summary 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 This collection of the previously unpublished correspondence between Mistral and Ocampo reveals the private side of two very public women.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 Bibliography Includes chronology, biographical dictionary, bibliographical references (pages 339-347), and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957 -- Correspondence Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979 -- Correspondence Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957 -- Translations into English Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979 -- Translations into English SUBJECT Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957 fast Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979 fast Subject Authors, Chilean -- 20th century -- Correspondence Authors, Argentine -- 20th century -- Correspondence Authors, Chilean. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Letters. Authors, Argentine Authors, Chilean Genre/Form Translations Personal correspondence Form Electronic book Author Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979 Horan, Elizabeth, 1956- Meyer, Doris, 1942- ISBN 0292798830 9780292798830

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