"... during a month in their house in Santiago, Chile, where I prepared the earliest
draft of this translation. That travel was partially underwritten by Arizona State
University grants programs of the Friends of Latin American Studies, Women's
Studies, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. And thanks to my husband
, Paul Skilton, who makes possible the bright impossibility, to dwell delicious on.
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Prelud ..."
"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 ..."
"“Suppose your mother puts her heart and time into winning votes for women— real time, like going to jail. You might confess, like Betty Rogers, aged 10, that I really don’t care if women don’t get the vote. Then you discover what it feels like to want justice for your own cause and realize that you’ve spent your whole life learning how to protest. Here is a new and charming angle on the historic agitation for women suffrage, written by ..."
Gabriela Mistral An Artist and Her People (Coleccion Interamer) (English and Spanish Edition) by ElizabethHoran Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 1995 by Organization Of Amer State ISBN-13: 978-0-8270-3277-4, ISBN: 0-8270-3277-3
"Suppose your mother puts her heart and time into winning votes for women— real time, like going to jail. You might confess, like Betty Rogers, aged 10, that I really don͛t care if women don͛t get the vote. Then you discover what it feels like to want justice for your own cause and realize that you ͛ve spent your whole life learning how to protest. Here is a new and charming angle on the historic agitation for woman suffrage, written by ..."
"This companion to America?s greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies. Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical, political and cultural contexts of her work, and its critical reception over the years Considers issues relating to the different formats in which Dickinson?s lyrics have been published ? manuscript, print, halft ..."
Gabriela Mistral by ElizabethHoran Hardcover, Published 1995 by University Of Texas Press Import ISBN-13: 978-0-292-72749-6, ISBN: 0-292-72749-6
Motivos The Life of St. Francis (English and Spanish Edition) by Gabriela Mistral, ElizabethHoran Paperback, 182 Pages, Published 2013 by Bilingual Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-931010-93-1, ISBN: 1-931010-93-5
""In this superb critical edition, Horan has collected, edited, and translated the various prose texts that Gabriela Mistral devoted to St. Francis, a figure of utmost importance to the deeply religious poet and to the spirituality of Latin American literature and art. The inspired translation of Mistral s idiosyncratic Spanish prose into English captures the rhythm and the delicate, lyrical quality of the original, a feat made even more ..."
"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 ..."
Writing and Thinking A Process Approach Using Thinking to Write and Writing to Think (Blue Level Student Book) by Linda Adelman, Elizabeth M. Horan Paperback, Published 1985 by Mastery Education Corporation ISBN-13: 978-0-88106-126-0, ISBN: 0-88106-126-3
"Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award in 1997 (Spanish Edition) What form does the crisis of modernity take in Latin America when societies are politically demobilized and there is no revolutionary agenda in sight? How does postmodern criticism reflect on enlightenment and utopia in a region marked by incomplete modernization, new waves of privatization, great masses of excluded peoples, and profound sociocultural heterogeneit ..."
"In the tradition of her critically acclaimed memoir of her mother, A Cross and a Star, Marjorie Agosín traces the life story of her father, Moisés Agosín, a doctor, scientist, and classical pianist whose life reflects the lives of so many Jews of his generation, who were destined to be always refugees, always “others”—always from somewhere else. In the search for her father’s origins, Agosín reaches into the past to the story of her gr ..."
"In the tradition of her critically acclaimed memoir of her mother, "A Cross and a Star," Marjorie Agosin traces the life story of her father, Moises Agosin, a doctor, scientist, and classical pianist whose life reflects the lives of so many Jews of his generation, who were destined to be always refugees, always "others"always from somewhere else. In the search for her father's origins, Agosin reaches into the past to the story of her gr ..."
""Carmen Lyra's marvelous trickster tales wake the reader to a sharper understanding of 20th-century history. Lyra's stories and sketches--characterized by a sharp wit, wonderfully audacious candor and wry humor--help us reimagine the map of the Western Hemisphere."--Valerie Miner, University of Minnesota"Carmen Lyra is one of many Central American women writers who were significant players in literary, intellectual, and political circle ..."