A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral

by Licia Fiol-Matta

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Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), the first Latin American to win theNobel Prize for Literature, was a poetic idol for generations of Latin Americans who viewed her as Womanhood incarnate, the national schoolteacher-mother. How this distinctly masculine woman who never gave birth came to occupy this role, and what Mistral's image, poetry, and life have to say about the relations-and realities-of race, gender, and sexual politics in her...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0816639647

ISBN13:9780816639649

Release Date:February 2002

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 9.2"

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Arts & Literature Authors Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Criticism & Theory Gay & Lesbian History History & Criticism

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