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Writing Toward Hope - Agosin, Marjorie - Yale University Press
  • Dec 04, 2006
    672 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
    16 color illus. in 8 pp. insert
    ISBN: 9780300109429
    ISBN-10: 0300109423
  • Paper: $45.00 tx
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Literary Studies


Writing Toward Hope

The Literature of Human Rights in Latin America

  • Edited by Marjorie Agosin
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Table of Contents

Introduction

Jacobo Timerman: Fragmento de Preso sin nombre, celda sin número

Isabel Allende: Prólogo a Flores del desierto de Paula Allen

Pablo Neruda: ‘‘El gran mantel,’’ ‘‘Oda a la poesía,’’ Fragmento del Discurso pronunciado con ocasión de la entrega del Premio Nobel de Literatura, 1971

Author Index

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Broadly based on the theme of human rights in Latin America, Writing Toward Hope is an anthology of contemporary literature—fiction, essays, plays, poems—by some of the most prominent and well-known Latin American writers of the 20th century. Each chapter is devoted to a particular theme, such as torture, exile, and women's roles in Latin America. The selections capture the creativity and expression borne out of the various social and political struggles that took place in Latin America during the 20th century. Writers such as Pablo Neruda, Isabel Allende, Nancy Morejón, Jacobo Timerman, Reinaldo Arenas, Elena Poniatowska, and Ariel Dorfman weigh in on issues of human rights and social justice in Latin America today.

Marjorie Agosín is professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. She has won numerous awards for her poetry and other writings, all of which are dedicated to the cause of human rights.

The complete list of 57 writers included in the anthology:

Isabel Allende
Diana Anhalt
Marco Antonio de la Parra
Reinaldo Arenas
Homero Aridjis
Gladys Diaz Armijo
Ruth Behar
Gioconda Belli
Mario Benedetti
Claudia Bernardi
Rosario Castellanos
Roberto Castillo
Carlos Cerda
Elicura Chihuailaf
Julio Cortázar
Roque Dalton
Delia Domínguez
Ariel Dorfman
Carlos Eire
Claribel Alegría
Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Griselda Gambaro
Alicia Kozameh
Ivonne Lamazares
Amado Láscar
Carlos Liscano
Rigoberta Menchú

Gabriela Mistral
Víctor Montejo
Nancy Morejón
Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Pablo Neruda
José Emilio Pacheco
Heberto Padilla
Isabel Parra
Violeta Parra
Alicia Partnoy
Elena Poniatowska
Rocio Quispe-Agnoli
Laura Riesco
Nela Río
Reina Roffé
Susana Rotker
Margara Russotto
Emma Sepúlveda

Antonio Skármeta
Nora Strejilevich
Noga Tarnopolsky
Jacobo Timerman
Anabel Torres
Marta Traba
Hernán Valdés
Ivón Vailakis
Luisa Valenzuela
Lourdes Vázquez
Daisy Zamora

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