Rereading the Spanish American Essay(Updated) Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women's Essays (Texas Pan American Series) by DorisMeyer Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-75182-8, ISBN: 0-292-75182-6
" "The essays are clearly chosen to be different in style and content from the 'malestream' canon, and the book as a whole is full of old friends and welcome new surprises.... It will be of interest not only to Latin Americanists, but also to the wider community interested in non-European gender studies and cultural studies." —Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University Latin American intellectual history is largely founded on essayistic writi ..."
Victoria Ocampo(Reprint) Against the Wind and the Tide (Texas Pan American Series) by DorisMeyer, Victoria Ocampo Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-78710-0, ISBN: 0-292-78710-3
"The "first lady of Argentine letters," Victoria Ocampo is best known as the architect of cultural bridges between the American and European continents and as the founder and director of Sur, an influential South American literary review and publishing house. In this first biographical study in English of "la superbe Argentine," originally published in 1979, Doris Meyer considers Victoria Ocampo's role in introducing European and North A ..."
Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries (Texas Pan American) by DorisMeyer Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-72387-0, ISBN: 0-292-72387-3
"Latin American women have long written essays on topics ranging from gender identity and the female experience to social injustice, political oppression, lack of educational opportunities, and the need for female solidarity in a patriarchal environment. But this rich vein of writing has often been ignored and is rarely studied. This volume of twenty-one original studies by noted experts in Latin American literature seeks to recover and ..."
"Doris 'Coke' Lane Meyer, knew Will Rogers, not only as the Follies star he became, or the widely read newspaper columnist, or the popular star of radio and movies. She knew him as a favorite uncle who loved to sing and 'cut up' and tell jokes and stories long into the night. It has been seventy seven years since Will Rogers' death, but the memories of growing up in the Rogers clan remain vivid to the author now in her nineties. I Calle ..."
Victoria Ocampo(1st Edition) Against the Wind and the Tide by DorisMeyer, Victoria Ocampo Hardcover, 314 Pages, Published 1979 by George Braziller ISBN-13: 978-0-8076-0900-2, ISBN: 0-8076-0900-5
"The "first lady of Argentine letters," Victoria Ocampo is best known as the architect of cultural bridges between the American and European continents and as the founder and director of Sur, an influential South American literary review and publishing house. In this first biographical study in English of "la superbe Argentine," originally published in 1979, Doris Meyer considers Victoria Ocampo's role in introducing European and North A ..."
"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 America. Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin America's first Nobel Laureate in 1945. Ocampo, a stunning Argentine woman of wealth, wrote hundreds o ..."
Speaking for Themselves(1st Edition) Neomexicano Cultural Identity and the Spanish-Language Press, 1880-1920 (Paso Por Aqui Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage) by DorisMeyer Paperback, 279 Pages, Published 1996 by Univ Of New Mexico Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-1749-0, ISBN: 0-8263-1749-9
"When New Mexico became a territory of the United States in 1848, the Hispanic population faced an influx of American immigrants. The neomexicanos, residents of some of the oldest Hispanic communities in the United States, found their life-ways disdained, their communal property threatened, and their very existence called into question by aggressive invaders. They quickly began efforts to protect their language and culture against enforc ..."
Rereading the Spanish American Essay(1st Edition) Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women's Essays (Texas Pan American Series) by DorisMeyer Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-75179-8, ISBN: 0-292-75179-6
"Latin American intellectual history is largely founded on essayistic writing. Women's essays have always formed a part of this rich tradition, yet they have seldom received the respect they merit and are often omitted entirely from anthologies. This volume and its earlier companion, Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay: Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries, seek to remedy that neglect. This book collects thirty-six notable ..."
Lives on the Line(1st Edition) The Testimony of Contemporary Latin American Authors by DorisMeyer Hardcover, 314 Pages, Published 1988 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-06002-9, ISBN: 0-520-06002-4
"These thoughtfully assembled writings by many of Latin America's finest authors bear first-person witness to the personal, social, and political situation of the writer and of literature in Latin America. At different times ironic, impassioned, humorous, reflective, autobiographical, polemical, and always vivid and engaging, this collection of writings is indispensable to a full appreciation of the achievement of twentieth-century Latin ..."
Victoria Ocampo Against the Wind and the Tide by DorisMeyer 332 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-75913-8, ISBN: 0-292-75913-4
"From a letter by V.O. to María de Maeztu, January 21, 1934. 28. Stabb, InQuestof
Identity, p. 69.Stabb discusses Ortega's visit and the Argentine writers influenced
by him; those writers included Martínez Estrada, Carlos Alberto Erro, Eduardo
Mallea, Canal Feijóo and H.A. Murena. An interesting collection of essays onthe
subject ofArgentina's search for identityis Argentina, análisis yautoanálisis, ed. H.
Ernest Lewald (BuenosAires: ..."
Rereading the Spanish American Essay Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women's Essays by DorisMeyer 336 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-78625-7, ISBN: 0-292-78625-5
"Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women's Essays Doris Meyer.
Thesecondessay, “La mujer ysu expresión” (Woman and Her Expression), was
writtenas aradio talk broadcast from Argentina to Spain in August 1936,just asthe
Spanish Civil Warwas beginning. It was evidently directedat afemale audience
towhom Ocampo transmittedapowerful appealfor solidarityand commitmentto
developing a female tradition of selfexpression. Recognizing the ..."
"Elena Poniatowska, bornin Paris in 1933, isofPolish Mexican ancestry. She came
to MexicofromFrance with her family in 1942. 6. I am once again borrowing from
Roland Barthes, who suggests thattheessence of photography is itsreference to “
What hasbeen,” or“the Intractable.” I amswitchinghis referenttothe photographer
himself or herself, who also“has been” (there)forthe photograph to exist (77). 7.
The essayon “Algunas fotógrafas deMé ..."
Non-Ser. Grantsmanship for Small Libraries and School Library Media Centers by DorisMeyer, Ann Jerabek, Sylvia Hall-Ellis 173 Pages, Published 1999 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-0-313-07865-1, ISBN: 0-313-07865-3
"... 1 3 Federal funding decline in, 4 Federal government and project adoption
curriculum grants, 36 share of grant dollars awarded by, 1 17 Federal grant
funding agencies hiring funds through, 66 Federal grants timeline for, 87 Federal
programs officer, 4 Federal Register, 103, 128 web site, 105 Ferguson,
Jacqueline, 108, 114 Ferrell, Edith H., 108 Fiber optics, 148 FICA, 55 Financial
resources, 6-7 Finding Funding, Grantwriting an ..."
"17 colorful pages with step-by-step instructions, photos, pre-tested directions, bow instructions included--no experience needed with great results the first time. Designed for your success"
Ways With Raffia by DorisMeyer Paperback, 16 Pages, Published 1997 by Hot Off The Press Inc ISBN-13: 978-1-56231-340-1, ISBN: 1-56231-340-1
"Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Munoz and Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as Las manos de Mama in 1938), are autobiographical evocations of ..."
"Need extra funding for your library or for another educational project? Check this handy guide. Designed for educators and administrators in school and small public libraries, this book is filled with the practical information you need to prepare and execute a successful grant proposal. Learn what types of grants are available and which ones are most suitable to your needs, then follow the step-by-step guidelines for locating sources an ..."
Speaking for Themselves Neomexicano Cultural Identity and the Spanish-Language Press, 1880-1920 by DorisMeyer Published 1996 ISBN-13: 978-0-585-25943-7, ISBN: 0-585-25943-7
"Winner, Best Book Translation Prize, New England Council of Latin American Studies, 2005Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America. Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin America's first Nobel Laureate in 1945. Ocampo, a stunning Argentine woman of wealth, wrote hundreds of ..."