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

by Karen Pena

Overview

This book examines the relationship between poetry and the public sphere as it is addressed in the work of three of the most important Latin American women poets, namely Gabriela Mistral, Cecilia Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos, of the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367604189
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

1 Poetics of Transfiguration: Projections of Self and Other in Gabriela Mistral's Mexico 8

2 Lamentations from the Otherworld: Greek Myth and Sexuality in the Poetry of Gabriela Mistral 38

3 A Stranger to Myself: Poetic Explorations of the (Feminine) Self in Cecília Meireles 61

4 Tico-Tico Leaves Fubá: US-Brazilian Narratives and Social Poetic Critiques in Cecília Meireles (1940-1953) 94

5 Mothers and Counter-Myths in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos: Dreams of Creative and Reproductive Choice 126

6 Caught in the Colloquial Cell: Infanticide, Matricide, and Logocide in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos 141

Conclusion 159

Appendices of Longer Poems

Poems of Gabriela Mistral 161

Poems of Cecília Meireles 183

Poems of Rosario Castellanos 189

Life, Work, and Selected Bibliography

Gabriela Mistral 204

Cecilia Meireles 211

Rosario Castellanos 217

Index 223