A Queer Mother For The Nation
Fiol-Matta, Licia![A Queer Mother For The Nation](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/171/1712019/CHSBZCOP031712019.jpg)
Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), the first Latin American to win theNobel 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 ...