Poetry and the Realm of the Public Intellectual

"Gabriela Mistral, Cecilia Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos were three of the most important Latin American women writers of the 20th century. Prolific, contentious, and widely read and discussed from Spanish America to Brazil, they pushed the boundaries of what it meant to be women poets from the 1920s to the 1970s. Karen Pena explores how these three writers used poetry to oppose patriarchal discourse on topics ranging from marginalized peoples to issues of gender and sexuality. Poetry was a means for them to redefine their own feminized space, however difficult or odd it could turn out to be."--Jacket.