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Victoria Ocampo: Writer, Feminist, Woman of the World » Read Now
by Victoria Ocampo, Patricia Owen Steiner. 194 pgs.

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Women's Writing in Latin America: An Anthology (Section on Victoria Ocampo including excerpts from her writings begins on p. 137) » Read Now
by Sara Castro-Klaren, Sylvia Molloy, Beatriz Sarlo. 362 pgs.

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Critical Acts: Latin American Women and Cultural Criticism (Chap. 3 "From Consumption to Production: Victoria Ocampo as Cultural Critic") » Read Now
by Elizabeth A. Marchant. 144 pgs.

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...Lucia Miguel, 1901-1959. 6. Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979. 7. Mistral, Gabriela...From Consumption to Production: Victoria Ocampo as Cultural Critic 46...Lucia Miguel Pereira...
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A Dream of Light & Shadow: Portraits of Latin American Women Writers (Chap. 2 "Victoria Ocampo & Spiritual Energy") » Read Now
by Marjorie Agosin. 342 pgs.

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Woman as Witness: Essays on Testimonial Literature by Latin American Women ("Victoria Ocampo's Making of Self in Her Autobiograf'a" begins on p. 141) » Read Now
by Isabel Dulfano, Linda S. Maier. 218 pgs.

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Testimonial narrative is considered to be both a constant in Latin American literature, as well as one of the most prominent features of the post-boom writing of the 1980s and 1990s; women have successfully assimilated this form and currently dominate the testimonial genre in Latin America. The...
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Testimonial narrative is considered to be both a constant in Latin American literature, as well as one of the most prominent features of the post-boom writing of the 1980s and 1990s; women have successfully assimilated this form and currently dominate the testimonial genre in Latin America. The essays in this volume provide an orientation to the woman-centered view of this genre by inquiring into the critical and theoretical debate on the subject as well as analyzing specific nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American women's testimonial texts. Woman as Witness also includes selections from two testimonial works by Argentine women to advance the creation of a canon of Latin American feminist testimonial.
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Latin-American Women Writers: Class, Race, and Gender (Discussion of Victoria Ocampo begins on p. 13) » Read Now
by Myriam Yvonne Jehenson. 206 pgs.

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Between Civilization & Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina ("Victoria Ocampo: Memory, Language, and Nation" begins on p. 156) » Read Now
by Francine Masiello. 254 pgs.

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Masiello's book "sheds light on a relatively little-known group of extremely interesting women in the formative period of a major literature. . . . [It] breaks new ground and will be a standard reference for the subject."-Margaret Sayers Peden.Evoking the famous watchwords of Argentine president...
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Masiello's book "sheds light on a relatively little-known group of extremely interesting women in the formative period of a major literature. . . . [It] breaks new ground and will be a standard reference for the subject."-Margaret Sayers Peden.Evoking the famous watchwords of Argentine president Domingo Sarmiento (1868-74), Between Civilization and Barbarism explores the positioning of women within the Argentine nation and argues that women neither sought alliance with the "civilizing" agenda of leading statesmen nor found identity in the extreme poses of "barbarism," to which some intellectuals had condemned them. Instead, women used literary and political texts to surpass the tightly outlined roles assigned to them.Beginning with literary and journalistic texts written by and about women from the time of Sarmiento, Francine Masiello traces strategic shifts in the discourse on gender at moments of national crisis. She considers not only novels and guides to female behavior written by and for privileged women but also newspapers and political tracts produced by women of the working class. Extending her study into the urban expansion and modernization of the 1920s, Masiello explores the nature of gender relations posited in treatises on crime and public disorder and in the texts of avant-garde and social-realist writers. In addressing such representations of women, as well as the effects of ideology and history on writing, Masiello offers bold new insights into the development of Latin American women's literature and illuminates the role of women in forming the culture of present-day Argentina.Francine Masiello is an associate professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Lenguaje e ideología: las escuelas argentinas de vanguardia (1986) and coauthor of Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America (1990).
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Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another ("Victoria Ocampo on John Steinbeck" begins on p. 44) » Read Now
by Ilan Stavans. 332 pgs.

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It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the literary figures on one side of the global North/ South divide have had little interest in the work of...
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It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the literary figures on one side of the global North/ South divide have had little interest in the work of their counterparts. With Mutual Impressions Ilan Stavans dispels these notions by showing how solid the bridges between writers and across borders have been -- at least since the early days of this century -- and how crucial they are likely to become as we enter the next millennium.
Divided into symmetrical halves -- South reading North and North reading South -- the book presents essays by leading novelists, poets, and other writers that focus on the work of another literary figure from across the divide. Borges, for example, finds in Hawthorne the perfect precursor to his own interest in allegories; Katherine Anne Porter examines Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi as a rascal whose picaresque views of life in The Itching Parrot served to launch the Latin American novel; Cortazar's study of the plots and style of Poe show an affinity that left an indelible mark on the Argentine's short fiction; Susan Sontag views Machado de Assis as the ultimate mirror, a proto-postmodernist.
With other essays by Thomas Pynchon, William H. Gass, John Updike, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, John Barth, Robert Coover, Pedro Henriquez Urena, Grace Paley, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Mark Strand, among others, Mutual Impressions offers a remarkable view of the connections that comprise a literary tradition of the Americas. It is a book that will surprise and enliven its readers as it informs and awakensin them a sense of wonder.
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Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English ("Ocampo, Victoria" begins on p. 227) » Read Now
by Barbara Fister. 400 pgs.

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A reference companion to Third World women writers and their writing available in English.