Product Description: Doris 'Coke' Lane Meyer, knew Will Rogers, not only as the Follies star he became, or the widely read newspaper columnist, or the popular star of radio and movies. She knew him as a favorite uncle who loved to sing and 'cut up' and tell jokes and stories long into the night.

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Product Description: Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America. Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin AmericaaEURO(t)s first Nobel Laureate in 1945...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Spanish-language newspapers during the territorial and early statehood years in New Mexico reveal the roots of Chicano culture.

'Companion volume to Reinterpreting the Spanish American essay (see item #bi 97002053#), this anthology collects work of 22 essayists including Gâomez de Avellaneda, Ocampo, Peri Rossi, Castellanos, and others less known. Many treat topics related to women. Excellent translations; short introductory essays on each writer. First-rate contribution to revisionist literary history'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

'Reading these essayists is essential for gaining an understanding of Latin American literature and culture. Work focuses on feminine perspective, and in doing so, proposes a reinterpretation of the history of the genre. Includes analyses of better-knownwomen writers: Clorinda Matto de Turner, Gabriela Mistral, Alfonsina Storni, Magda Portal, Eduarda Mansilla, Victoria Ocampo, and Rosario Ferrâe. Major contribution to both the study of the essay and to the work of the women included. Work could have benefitted from the inclusion of less-frequently studied women, since the classic feminist list is becoming repetitive, and, as with work on boom writers, it has nearly reached the point of exhaustion'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Rebelling against strict social conventions, Ocampo fought for women's rights in Argentina, opposed the Peron regime, and, through her literary review, introduced South Americans to European and Northern American writers

Describes the conditions for writers in South America, offers essays by thirty authors, and includes brief profiles of each individual