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 American writers and artists to the South American public—through the pages of her review, through translations of their work, and through lecture tours and recitations. She examines Ocampo's personal relationships with some of the most illustrious writers and thinkers of this century—including José Ortega y Gasset, Rabindranath Tagore, Count Hermann Keyserling, Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Monnier, Vita Sackville-West, Gabriela Mistral, and many others. And she portrays an extraordinary woman who rebelled against the strictures of family and social class to become a leading personality in the fight for women's rights in Argentina and, later, a steadfast opponent of the Perón regime, for which she was sent to jail in 1953. Fifteen of Victoria Ocampo's essays, selected from her more than ten volumes of prose and translated by Doris Meyer, complement the biographical study.

Victoria Ocampo: Against the Wind and the Tide (Texas Pan American Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Meyer, Doris

Arts & Literature

University of Texas Press

Rebelling against strict social conventions, Ocampo fought for women's rights in Argentina, opposed the Peron regime, and, through her literary review, introduced South Americans to European and Northern American writers

Victoria Ocampo: Against the Wind and the Tide (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Ocampo, Victoria

History & Criticism

George Braziller

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 enforced assimilation. One of the major outlets for this resistance was the Spanish-language newspaper. Here poetry, oratory, letters, fiction, and essays helped bridge the gap between the largely oral cultural expression of the region and the print-oriented culture of the Americans. Meyer's pioneering archival research examines these newspapers and their writers. The work of Jose Escobar, Felipe Maximiliano Chacon, Luis Tafoya, and Benjamin M. Read, as well as that of less well known and anonymous writers, displays the diversity and complexity of this literature and its role in the construction of a unique cultural identity.

Speaking for Themselves: Neomexicano Cultural Identity and the Spanish-Language Press, 1880-1920 (Paso Por Aqui Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage)

United States

Univ of New Mexico Pr

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Politics & Social Sciences

Hall-Ellis, Sylvia D.

Jerabek, Ann

Social Sciences

Libraries Unlimited

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