Marjorie Agosín

Las desterradas del paraíso, protagonistas en la narrativa de María Luisa Bombal

This anthology traces the history of fantastic literature in Chile and Argentina. The stories include fairy tales, science fiction, and metaphorical political tales.

Stories of the Fantastic by Women of Argentina and Chile

Secret Weavers

A landmark collection that rescues the voices of the great women writers of Latin America. "This is so far the best anthology of Latin American women's literature in translation published in this country. Highly recommended."--Choice

Fiction by Latin American Women

Landscapes of a New Land

Marjorie Agosín's intensely personal long poem The Light of Desire is both a secular and sacred meditation on love and its meanings in the land of Israel. ... The poem was written over a four-year span in Jerusalem's Mishkenot Sha'ananim neighborhood, overlooking the wall of the Second Temple, and these hallowed surroundings imbued Agosín's poetic voice. Lori Marie Carlson's sensitive translation maintains the spirit of the original Spanish in this bilingual edition.--Swan Isle Press.

Luz Del Deseo

Nancy Abraham Hall

This is the first English-language gathering of the voices of Mexican women, most of whom began to publish in the 1960s when an emerging middle class supported a boom in Mexican letters.

Stories by Mexican Women

A Necklace of Words

Presented in a bilingual format that honors the poet's native Spanish language, this collection of poems represents a deep and spiritual inner-journey, taking on themes of femininity, desire, writing, and corruption. Exposing both the dark truths of female stereotypes and politics, the poems are bold and resonant.

Brujas Y Algo Más

Brujas y algo mas

Strong female voices narrate the poems of this collection, including historical and mythological icons such as Virginia Woolf and Penelope as well as contemporary stereotypes ranging from housewives to witches to rape victims. The poems create a communion between women in suffering and explores the relationships they have with themselves and between each other and the exterior world.

Women of Smoke

El Ángel de la Memoria

Joy Renjilian-Burgy

Elena Gascón Vera

Underrecognized in her own lifetime, the works of Maria Luisa Bombal have been increasingly read and understood as keys to the development of feminist styles, thematics, and thought. This volume includes a collection of scholarly analyses of her creative production, a contextualization of her work and its significance within Latin American letters and feminist literature, and a comprehensive bibliography of both primary and secondary texts.

apreciaciones críticas

María Luisa Bombal

Isabel Allende

This collection reflects the author's deeply rooted passion for nature, for life, and for being. Agosín spent her summers at the Chilean seaside, near Neruda's home at Isla Negra. “The sea, the rocks, marine images became important elements in my creative work,” she said recently. Here she creates a world where everything touches the sea and is, in turn, touched by it, a world peopled by those who “carry the scents of the river and the sign of water.” “Agosín's voice [is] ripe with sensuality.”—Booklist

Sargasso; Poems

Poetry that is both memorable and haunting. --Isabel Allenda

Lluvia en el desierto

Extrait de la couverture : "This book tells the story of ordinary women living in terror and extreme poverty under General Pinochet's oppressive rule in Chile (1973-1989) and how their lives did and did not change following his reign. These women defied the military dictatorship by embroidering their sorrow on scraps of cloth, using needles and thread as one of the boldest means of popular protest and resistance in Latin America. The arpilleras they made--patchwork tapestries with scenes of everyday life and memorials to their disappeared relatives--were smuggled out of Chile and brought to the world the story of their fruitless searches in jails, morgues, government offices, and the tribunals of law for their husbands, brothers, and sons."

The Arpillera Movement in Chile

Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love

Emma Sepúlveda

This collection of letters chronicles a remarkable, long-term friendship between two women who, despite differences of religion and ethnicity, have followed remarkably parallel paths from their first adolescent meeting in their native Chile to their current lives in exile as writers, academics, and political activists in the United States. Spanning more than thirty years (1966-2000), Agosín's and Sepúlveda's letters speak eloquently on themes that are at once personal and political—family life and patriarchy, women's roles, the loneliness of being a religious or cultural outsider, political turmoil in Chile, and the experience of exile.

Letters of Friendship and Exile

Amigas

reminiscencias de una niña judía en Chile

Sagrada memoria

Sixteen original essays on women writers from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil are gathered in this book. Each establishes the relationship between the biography of the subject and her literary production. Some of these writers, like Nobel Prize-winner Gabriela Mistral, Elena Poniatowska, and Victoria Ocampo, are well known; others are still largely undiscovered. All of them defy the limits imposed upon them by society, and all have been able to find freedom through creative imagination. All the writers included here are vitally concerned with the problems women face in Latin America. Children and mothers are the central focus of their lives and of many of their writings. These writers have participated in essential ways in the history of their respective countries and in the intellectual history of Latin America, and at the same time, their greatest contribution has been in the sharing of the private details of personal stories, their own and others. In the strong connections that many of them have had with each other, Marjorie Agosin sees a culture of sisterhood.

Portraits of Latin American Women Writers

A Dream of Light & Shadow

This is the first collection of stories by acclaimed poet Marjorie Agosín. In lyrical pieces more like poems-in-prose, Agosín celebrates both her own ethnic heritage and the universal human truths that demonstrate the myriad ways in which happiness is ultimately revealed to us. “These pieces are like tiny jewels that reflect dazzlingly a million truths.”—Américas Magazine

Stories

Happiness

A Global Perspective

Women, Gender, and Human Rights

An autobiography of the Chilean author describes her childhood, adolescence, and her life in exile after the 1973 coup in Chile.

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