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A queer mother for the nation : the state and

Gabriela Mistral
by Fiol-Matta, Licia

Publication date 2002

Topics Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957 -- Political and social views,
Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957 -- Sexual behavior, Mistral,
Gabriela, 1889-1957 -- Pensée politique et sociale, Mistral,
Gabriela, 1889-1957 -- Sexualité, Mistral, Gabriela 1889-
1957 -- Pensamiento social, Mistral, Gabriela 1889-1957 --
Pensamiento político, Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957, Mistral,
Gabriela 1889-1957, Mistral, Gabriela, Feminism and litera‐
ture -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century, Women and
literature -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century,
Feminism and literature -- Chile -- History -- 20th century,
Women and literature -- Chile -- History -- 20th century,
Féminisme et littérature -- Amérique latine -- Histoire -- 20e
siècle, Femmes et littérature -- Amérique latine -- Histoire --
20e siècle, Féminisme et littérature -- Chili -- Histoire -- 20e
siècle, Femmes et littérature -- Chili -- Histoire -- 20e siècle,
18.33 Spanish-American literature, Feminismo y literatura --
América Latina, Feminism and literature, Political and social
views, Sex, Women and literature, Homosexuality, Feminism,
Political aspects, Chile, Latin America
Publisher Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press
Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks
Contributor Internet Archive
Language English

xxix, 269 pages : 24 cm

Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was
a poetic idol for generations of Latin Americans who viewed her as Womanhood incarnate, the national
schoolteacher-mother. How this distinctly masculine woman who never gave birth came to occupy this role,
and what Mistral's image, poetry, and life have to say about the relations-and realities-of race, gender, and
sexual politics in her time, are the questions Licia Fiol-Matta pursues in this book, recreating the story of a
woman whose misrepresentation is at least as intriguing, and as instructive, as her fame. A Queer Mother for
the Nation weaves a nuanced understanding of how Mistral cooperated with authority and fashioned herself
as the figure of Motherhood in collaboration with the state. Drawing on Mistral's little-known political and so‐
cial essays, her correspondence and photographs, Fiol-Matta reconstructs Mistral's relationship to state pol‐
itics. Her work questions the notion of queer bodies as outlaws, and insists on the many ways in which queer
subjects have participated in and sustained the normative discourses they seem to rebel against. Licia Fiol-
Matta is assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-255) and index

Race woman -- Schooling and sexuality -- Citizen mother -- Intimate nationalism -- Image is everything --
Pedagogy, humanities, social unrest -- Education and loss

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