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Teresa de la Parra: A Literary Life
Author(s): RoseAnna Mueller (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 6 Jun. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 315 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443837997
- ISBN-13: 9781443837996
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of Teresa de la Parra for English-speaking readers. The volume includes a biographical chapter and analyses of de la Parra’s two novels, Iphigenia: the diary of a young lady who wrote because she was bored and Mama Blanca’s Memoirs. An annotated version of the Three Colombian Lectures: Women’s Influence in the Formation of the American Soul reveals the importance of Latin American women’s contributions in Latin American history and speaks to gender issues sparked by critical reactions to Iphigenia. Translations of de la Parra’s selected letters, short stories, and entries from the “Bellevue-Fuenfria-Madrid Diary” provide a more complete picture of the writer and help tie her works to her life. The book reviews literary criticism on de la Parra, providing an overview of what Venezuelan, Latin American and American critics and biographers have to say about the author and her works. De la Parra bridged the gap between Venezuelan and European traditions, and this book examines the author’s contribution to Venezuelan and Latin American literary traditions while showcasing her as a model of Latin American women’s writing whose influence is being rediscovered and reevaluated.
Editorial Reviews
Review
”The present volume focuses on a dynamic and gifted woman writer who pursued an intensive intellectual life in the early 20th century, Teresa de la Parra(1889-1936). In introducing this Venezuelan author to English-speaking readers, Mueller encompasses all of Parra’s writings–including letters, essays, and observations in her diaries–to create an enthralling portrait of the remarkable author.”- F. Colecchia, ‘Choice’, 50: 8 (April, 2013)”As RoseAnna Mueller tells us in her Preface, she happened upon Teresa de la Parra’s work quite by chance, something that is common to all of us who work with literature. Just as it happens to many of us, Mueller became enchanted by de la Parra’s work, and included it in her syllabus. But Mueller went further ahead, making de la Parra’s writings a subject of serious study, and the result is this book. For any person interested in becoming better acquainted with the literature of Latin America, this book is a must read: it brings an in-depth, careful reading of one of the most interesting and most original thinkers of the last hundred years. Through Teresa de la Parra’s lenses, as Mueller presents them, the reader will see how gender, race, and class are interwoven in the history of Venezuela and, by extension, of the whole continent.”– Eva P. Bueno, St. Mary’s University
About the Author
RoseAnna Mueller (PhD, Comparative Literature) is Associate Professor in the Humanities, History and Social Sciences Department at Columbia College Chicago and the Coordinator of the Women’s/Gender Studies Minor. Her articles and book reviews have appeared in Hispanet, Hispania, Letras Femeninas, The Hispanic Connection, Latin America as its Literature, The Latin American Feminist Encyclopedia, The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Issyensia Comparationis, The Encyclopedia of Mexico and The Chicago Tribune. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Venezuela, 2002 to 2003.
