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A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral
A Queer Mother for the Nation The State and Gabriela Mistral
Author: Licia Fiol-Matta
Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was a poetic idol for generations of Latin Americans who viewed her as Womanhood incarnate, the national schoolteacher-mother. How this distinctly masculine woman who never gave birth came to occupy this role, and what Mistral's image, po...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780816639649
ISBN-10: 0816639647
Publication Date: 2/2002
Pages: 264
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Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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