MISTRAL, GABRIELA

gäbrēāˈlä, 1889–1957, Chilean poet whose original name was Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. She was a teacher in and director of rural schools in Chile before she attained wider acclaim as an educator. Mistral was noted for her revision of the Mexican school system under José Vasconcelos. Subsequently, she served as Chilean consul in various European and Latin American cities and represented her country at the League of Nations and the United Nations. The mystery of childbearing, the sorrow of a tragic love, and a burning desire for justice are recurrent themes of her fluent and lyric verse. The early Sonetos de la muerte [sonnets of death] (1915) is considered one of her finest achievements. Desolación (1922), Tala (1938), and Lagar (1954) are three of her major volumes. Selected Poems, translated by Langston Hughes, was published in 1957. In 1945, Mistral received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Latin American to be so honored.

See studies by M. C. Preston (1964) and M. C. Taylor (1968).

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A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral
Book by Licia Fiol-Matta; University of Minnesota Press, 2002
Subjects: Feminism And Literature--Chile--History--20th Century, Feminism And Literature--Latin America--History--20th Century, Mistral, Gabriela--1889-1957--Political And Social Views, Mistral, Gabriela--1889-1957--Sexual Behavior, Women And Literature--Chile--History--20th Century, Women And Literature--Latin America--History--20th Century
...alleged stoning when Mistral was seven. Teitelboim...Ladr6n de Guevara, Gabriela Mistral, rebelde magnifica Gabriela Mis- tral, the...Horan reminds us that Mistral was complicit in...by Teitel- boim, Gabriela Mistral pablica y...
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Selected Prose and Prose-Poems
Book by Gabriela Mistral, Stephen Tapscott; University of Texas Press, 2002
Subjects: Mistral, Gabriela--1889-1957--Translations Into English
...consular position, Mistrals politics were often...ideol6gicos de los recados de Gabriela Mistral, in Gabriela Mistral, ed. Diaz...For instance, Mistral refused to obey governmental...and anthologists of Mistrals work have contributed...
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Critical Acts: Latin American Women and Cultural Criticism
Book by Elizabeth A. Marchant; University Press of Florida, 1999
Subjects: Criticism--Latin America, Latin American literature--History and criticism, Literature and society--Latin America, Mistral, Gabriela--1889-1957, Ocampo, Victoria--1890-1979, Pereira, Lucia Miguel--1901-1959, Women critics--Latin America
...106 Fraser, Valerie, 84 Freyre, Gilberto, 40 - 42 Gabriela Mistral: The Poet and Her Work Arce de Vazquez , 99-101 "Gabriela Mistral 1922-1924 " Guillen de Nicolau , 83-84 Gabriela Mistral publica y secreta Teltelboim , 101 -3 Gallegos...
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Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English
Book by Barbara Fister; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Developing Countries--Literatures--History And Criticism--Dictionaries, Developing Countries--Literatures--Women Authors--Dictionaries
...1993. Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral . Translated by Doris Dana...Notes Toward a Definition of Gabriela Mistrals Ideology." Women in Hispanic...Caimano Rose Aquin. Mysticism in Gabriela Mistral . New York: Pageant, 1969...
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Spanish-American Literature: A History
Book by Enrique Anderson Imbert, John V. Falconieri; Wayne State University Press, 1963
Subjects: Spanish American Literature--History And Criticism
...only Nobel Prize for Literature to our America, Gabriela Mistral; it will bring one of the most clamorous innovators...stature in this period is Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, or Gabriela Mistral. GABRIELA MISTRAL Chile, 1889- 1957 . Viewing her rugged...
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Horan, Elizabeth, and Doris Meyer, Ed. and Trans. This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Silvina Ocampo
Journal article by Mar�a Claudia Andr�; Chasqui, Vol. 33, 2004
Subjects: This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Silvina Ocampo (Libro)
...Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Silvina Ocampo...Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Silvina...ambos por Gabriela Mistral; "About Gabriela...hablaba como un r o y "Gabriela Mistral in Her Letters...
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Gabriela De Elqui, Mistral del Mundo: El Misterio De Una Cigarra
Journal article by Elizabeth R. Horan; Chasqui, Vol. 36, 2007
Subjects: Chile, Gabriela de Elqui, Mistral del Mundo: El Misterio de una Cigarra (Pelycula)
...people thought I worked for Gabriela Mistral, but I often paid the way ... she Gabriela Mistral always said that when...Commentaries from poets regarding Mistrals work supplement these...recollections. All testify to Gabriela Mistrals resistance to...
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Fiol-Matta, Licia. A Queen Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral
Journal article by Elizabeth Horan; Chasqui, Vol. 31, 2002
Subjects: A Queen Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral (Libro)
...State and Gabriela Mistral. by Elizabeth Horan...methodology" to read Gabriela Mistrals figure queerly...Alcayaga, a.k.a. Gabriela Mistral, "one of the chief...hard documents of Gabriela Mistrals heterosexuality...
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Quezada, Jaime. Bendita Mi Lengua Sea: Diario Intimo De Gabriela Mistral (1905-1956)
Journal article by Arturo C. Flores; Chasqui, Vol. 32, 2003
Subjects: Bendita mi lengua sea: diario intimo de Gabriela Mistral (1905-1956) (Libro)
...Lengua Sea: Diario Intimo De Gabriela Mistral (1905-1956). by Arturo C...956-247-293-0 La vida de Gabriela Mistral, Premio Nobel de Literatura...al campo de los estudios sobre Gabriela Mistral al mostrar un lado diferente...
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Antonieta Rivas Mercado: Katherine Anne Porter's Horror and Inspiration
Journal article by Darlene Harbour Unrue; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 47, 2005
Subjects: Mercado, Maria Antonieta Rivas--Works, Women authors--Biography, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Biography, Women writers--Works
...Paca) Toot and the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. (19) There is no possibility...Clemente Orozco and also with Gabriela Mistral, who was teaching at Columbia...long essay comparing Sot Juana and Mistral, two artistic women who, like...
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Rediscovering Gabriela Mistral: A New Trove of the Poet's Papers Promises to Give Researchers Fresh Insights into Latin America's First Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Magazine article by Elisa Montesinos; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 60, January 2008
Subjects: Mistral, Gabriela--Biography, Poets--Biography
...hands. / In 1953, Gabriela Mistral moved to Long Island...could do: donate Mistrals papers. She decided...into the hands of Gabriela Mistrals secretary and executor...Literary Legacy of Gabriela Mistral," a lecture he...
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Teacher from the Valley of Elqui
Magazine article by Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier; World and I, Vol. 14, October 1999
Subjects: Mistral, Gabriela--Biography, Nobel laureates--Biography, Poets--Biography, Women authors--Biography, Women writers--Biography
...GAZARIAN-GAUTIER The legacy of Gabriela Mistral Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier...Jamaica, New York, where the Gabriela Mistral Scholarship has been...strong sense of social justice, Gabriela Mistral embraced all creeds with the...
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Women's Work
Magazine article by Rhina P. Espaillat; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral (Poetry collection)--Book reviews
...Lucila Godoy" to "Gabriela Mistral," a name rich in associations...for good measure, "Mistral," the dry, cold wind...and her lifes work? Mistrals literary career better...to become the woman Gabriela Mistral became, and maybe a...
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Echoes of Old Beliefs
Magazine article by Arnold Whittall; Musical Times, Vol. 143, Winter 2002
Subjects: Adams, John (Composer), Birtwistle, Harrison, Classical music, Musicology, Symbolism
...The Christmas star by the Chilean Gabriela Mistral (set in English translation...soprano and mezzo soloists abandon Mistral for a while to join with the chorus...layering, as the last lines of the Mistral poem appear against those of Hildegards...
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A Poet's Seafaring Fantasy
Magazine article by Amy Depaul, Luis Poirot; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 43, March 1991
Subjects: Collectibles--Appreciation, Figureheads of ships--Collections and collecting, Isla Negra, Chile--Appreciation, Neruda, Pablo--Homes and haunts, Poets--Homes and haunts, The House on the Sand (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...wrote that Medusa 1 reminded him of Gabriela Mistral, Chiles first Nobel Prize-winning...he in 1971.) Neruda had met Mistral in Temuco when he attended a high...Lorca, Charles Baudelaire and Gabriela Mistral. There are also collections...
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Brought to Book; Judgment Day Looms for Orlando Figes with His First Book since the Amazon Reviews Scandal. Sebastian Shakespeare Reports
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 27, 2010
Subjects: Figes, Orlando, Scandals--Reports
...surprise he has quietly made a return to the hallowed groves of academe. This summer he popped up at the Universidad Gabriela Mistral in Chile giving two lectures (part of a family vacation taken with the approval of Birkbeck). Now Birkbeck College...
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Madeleine 'Sighting' ..in Chile
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), January 27, 2008
...Vicuna - 6,000 miles away from where she was snatched. The little blonde girl was seen with a couple visiting the Gabriela Mistral museum, around 330 miles north of the capital Santiago. A witness told police the man resembled an artists impression...
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Embassy Row
Newspaper article by James Morrison; The Washington Times, October 15, 1997
Subjects: Albright, Madeleine, Duncan, John J., Jr.
...here on environmental law in Chile. Speakers include environmental law professors Juan Carlos Urquidi of Chiles Gabriela Mistral University and Luke Danielson of the University of Chile and Anne Rowley of the U.S. Environmental Protection...
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Vargas Llosa Es Un Poltico Con May"sculas: Presidente De Chile Morales Reforma la Educacin Encuentre Pareja Conociendo Qu Lee -BYLN-
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 26, 2010
...el palacio gubernamental de La Moneda luego de condecorar al escritor con la Orden al Mrito Docente y Cultural "Gabriela Mistral". Aunque el escritor advirti que no volversz a ser candidato a la presidencia de su pas tras la derrota electoral...
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Stori Ryfeddol O Beidio Ag Ildio I Unrhyw Anhawster Dynol; WELSHCOLUMN
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 13, 2010
...feddwl am Waldo yn sgl yr argyfwng yn Chile oherwydd alla i ddim meddwl am y wlad honno heb feddwl am fy hoff feirdd, Gabriela Mistral a Pablo Neruda. Ac wrth ddosbarthu swyddi dan ddaear fe apwyntiwyd bardd swyddogol ar eu rhan, un a fyddain cofnodi...
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encyclopedia articles on: Mistral Gabriela  - 4 results

 
 
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Mistral, Gabriela
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MISTRAL, GABRIELA gabrea la mestral , 1889 1957, Chilean...attained wider acclaim as an educator. Mistral was noted for her revision of the Mexican...Hughes, was published in 1957. In 1945, Mistral received the Nobel Prize in Literature...
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Nobel Prizes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ramsay J. W. S. Rayleigh Ivan P. Pavlov Frederic Mistral Jose Echegaray 1905 Baroness Bertha von Suttner Adolf...Alexander Fleming E. B. Chain Sir Howard W. Florey Gabriela Mistral 1946 J. R. Mott Emily G. Balch J. B. Sumner J...
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Vasconcelos, JosÉ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...education, and to raise the literacy rate. For this task he enlisted the aid of prominent figures, notably the poet Gabriela Mistral . In 1929 he was defeated in the presidential race and was forced into exile by Plutarco Elias Calles. As teacher...
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Spanish American Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...many trends and movements. Three women poets, Alfonsina Storni, Juana de Ibarbourou , and the Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral , are known for their impassioned lyrics. Among the poets of the avant-garde movements in poetry were Vicente...


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