Against the Wind and the Tide
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Köp båda 2 för 866 krThe first biographical study in English of a woman who was not only an extraordinary and successful personality in the world of Argentinian letters but a symbol of female rebellion and freedom as a woman.... in all an excellent comprehensive introduction to this remarkable woman for English-speaking audiences. * British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain *
Doris Meyer is Roman S. & Tatiana Weller Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College .
Preface Chapter One: Embarking on a Sweet Sea The Ocampos and the Aguirres An Intersection in the Gran Aldea The Early Years Childhood and Schooling Chapter Two: Charting the Course Books and Heroes Dreams and Frustrations Letters to Delfina A Gilded Cage An Error and Its Penalty Art for Lifes Sake Chapter Three: Widening Horizons Jos Ortega y Gasset Rabindranath Tagore Count Hermann Keyserling Chapter Four: Barriers and Bridges A Clearer Vision Rediscovering Europe A Soul Without a Passport Sur Virginia Woolf and Gilded Butterflies Chapter Five: The Eye of the Storm The Beginnings of Argentine Feminism The Argentine Womens Union Prelude to Pern Feminism and the Pern Regime A Victim of the Regime Gabriela Mistral and Freedom A Postscript Chapter Six: Chronicles of an Adventurer Literature as Testimony Writing Like a Woman A Womans Mission The Symmetry of the Spirit Photographs A Selection of Essays by Victoria Ocampo, translated by Doris Meyer Sarmientos Gift Fani A King Passes By Mara de Maeztu Living History Adrienne Monnier Woman, Her Rights and Her Responsibilities Virginia Woolf in My Memory The Forest Gabriela Mistral and the Nobel Prize The Man With the Whip Albert Camus Heroes With and Without Space Suits The Last Year of Pachacutec Women in the Academy Chapter Notes Essay Notes Selected Bibliography Index