This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo

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 essays and founded the first-rate literary journal Sur. Though of very different backgrounds, their deep commitment to what they felt was "their" America forged a unique intellectual and emotional bond between them.This collection of the previously unpublished correspondence between Mistral and Ocampo reveals the private side of two very public women. In these letters (as well as in essays that are included in an appendix), we see what Mistral and Ocampo thought about each other and about the intellectual and political atmosphere of their time (including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the dictatorships of Latin America) and particularly how they negotiated the complex issues of identity, nationality, and gender within their wide-ranging cultural connections to both the Americas and Europe.

Biographies & Memoirs

MISTRAL, GABRIELA

Ocampo, Victoria

Historical

University of Texas Press

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

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)

Meyer, Doris

History & Criticism

George Braziller

Victoria Ocampo's voice in these selections from her writings is personal and refreshingly candid. Her autobiography reveals what it was like to grow up female in Argentina -- a society with rigid preconceptions about the role of women. Her essays disclose her development as a woman, a feminist, and a writer who interacted with major literary figures in the Americas and Europe. As a prolific writer and the founder and publisher of Sur, the Argentine literary review devoted to international exchange, Victoria Ocampo was a key figure in twentieth-century Latin American letters. Until now most of her work has been unavailable in English. Steiner's translations make Ocampo's memoirs, letters, and essays accessible to readers with interests in autobiography, in the literature and culture of Latin America, and in the development of feminist thought.

Victoria Ocampo: Writer, feminist, woman of the world

University of New Mexico Press

Victoria Ocampo's voice in these selections from her writings is personal and refreshingly candid. Her autobiography reveals what it was like to grow up female in Argentina - a society with rigid preconceptions about the role of women. Her essays disclose her development as a woman, a feminist, and a writer who interacted with major literary figures in the Americas and Europe. As a prolific writer and the founder and publisher of Sur, the Argentine literary review devoted to international exchange, Victoria Ocampo was a key figure in twentieth-century Latin American letters. Until now most of her work has been unavailable in English. Steiner's translations make Ocampo's memoirs, letters, and essays accessible to readers with interests in autobiography, in the literature and culture of Latin America, and in the development of feminist thought.

Victoria Ocampo: Writer, Feminist, Woman of the World

Steiner, Patricia Owen

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Preciadas cartas (1932-1979): Correspondencia entre Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo y Victoria Kent

Kent, Victoria

Editorial Renacimiento

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