This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo

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Winner, Best Book Translation Prize, New England Council of Latin American Studies, 2005

Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin The usa. Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was once a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin The usa’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. Although of very different backgrounds, their deep commitment to what they felt was once “their” The usa forged a unique intellectual and emotional bond between them.

This number of the in the past unpublished correspondence between Mistral and Ocampo reveals the private side of two very public women. In these letters (in addition to in essays which can be included in an appendix), we see what Mistral and Ocampo thought about every other and concerning the intellectual and political atmosphere in their time (including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the dictatorships of Latin The usa) 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.

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