Poetry and the Realm of the Public Intellectual
Subtitle: The Alternative Destinies of Gabriela Mistral, Celia Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos (Legenda Main Series)
Publisher: Legenda
Published: January 30, 2008
Language: eng; spa
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781905981335
Subjects: Literature: Texts; 20th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Latin America; Women Authors; Poetry
Description: "Gabriela Mistral, Cecilia Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos were three of the most important Latin American women writers of the 20th century. Prolific, contentious, and widely read and discussed from Spanish America to Brazil, they pushed the boundaries of what it meant to be women poets from the 1920s to the 1970s. Karen Pena explores how these three writers used poetry to oppose patriarchal discourse on topics ranging from marginalized peoples to issues of 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."--Jacket.