Name: Las Siete Cabritas (in English)
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Author: Poniatowska, Elena ; Martínez, Elizabeth Coonrod
ISBN: 9783031111761

Type

Physical Book

Illustrated by

Elena Poniatowska

Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Author

Poniatowska, Elena ; Martínez, Elizabeth Coonrod

Language

English

Pages

205

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.8 x 1.4 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9783031111761

Synopsis "Las Siete Cabritas (in English)"

This book consists of a collection of essays by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska in their first English translation, and a critical introduction. The highly engaging essays explore the lives of seven transformational figures for Mexican feminism. This includes Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, and Nahui Olin, three outstanding artists of the cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century, and Nellie Campobello, Elena Garro, Rosario Castellanos, and Pita Amor, forerunner writers and poets whose works laid a path for Mexican women writers in the later twentieth century. Poniatowska's essays discuss their fervent activity, interactions with other prominent figures, details and intricacies about their specific works, their scandalous and irreverent activities to draw attention to their craft, and specific revelations about their lives. The extensive critical introduction surveys the early feminist movement and Mexican cultural history, explores how Mexico became a more closed society by the mid-twentieth century, and suggests further reading and films. This book will be of interest both to the general reader and to scholars interested in feminist/gender studies, Mexican literary and cultural studies, Latin American women writers, the cultural renaissance, translation, and film studies.

Elena Poniatowska

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Nació en París en 1932, pero con tan sólo nueve años se trasladó a México. Sus obras literarias tienen un estilo único de narración que combina elementos periodísticos y literarios. Por su labor periodística se le entregó en 1978 el Premio Nacional de Periodismo en México. Ha sido nombrada Doctor Honoris Causa por ocho universidades y galardonada con el Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura en 2002 y el Premio Cervantes en 2013. Su obra ha sido traducida a más de una decena de idiomas y su trayectoria como periodista y escritora ha sido reconocida con múltiples premios nacionales e internacionales. Su capacidad para dar voz a aquellos que no suelen ser escuchados y su habilidad para contar historias conmovedoras la han establecido como una figura influyente en la literatura contemporánea.

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