Selected Prose and Prose-Poems (Texas Pan American Literature in Translation Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

By Gabriela Mistral

The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of literary modernism in a tradition that runs from Baudelaire, the North American moderns, and the South American postmodernistas. It's a book that will be eye-opening and informative to the general reader as well as to students of gender studies, cultural studies, literary history, and poetry. This Spanish-English bilingual volume gathers the most famous and representative prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, which have not been as readily available to English-only readers as her poetry. The pieces are grouped into four sections. Fables, Elegies, and Things of the Earth includes fifteen of Mistral's mos

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292752601
• ISBN13: 9780292752603
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"