Poetry and the Realm of the Public Intellectual

Name: Poetry and the Realm of the Public Intellectual
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book examines the relationship between poetry and the public sphere as it is addressed in the work of three of the most important Latin American women poets, namely Gabriela Mistral, Cecilia Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos, of the twentieth century. > This book examines the relationship between poetry and the public sphere as it is addressed in the work of three of the most important Latin American women poets, namely Gabriela Mistral, Cecilia Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos, of the twentieth century. > 1. Introduction 2. Poetics of Transfiguration: Projections of Self and Other in Gabriela Mistral\u2019s Mexico 3. Lamentations from the Otherworld: Greek Myth and Sexuality in the Poetry of Gabriela Mistral 4. A Stranger to Myself: Poetic Explorations of the (Feminine) Self in Cec\u00EDlia Meireles 5. Tico-Tico Leaves Fuba: US\u2013Brazilian Narratives and Social Poetic Critiques in Cec\u00EDlia Meireles (1940\u20131953) 6. Mothers and Counter-Myths in the Poetry of Rosn