Doris Meyer

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Cartucho and My Mother's Hands

University of Texas Press

Cartucho and My Mother’s Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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Victoria Ocampo

Against the Wind and the Tide

University of Texas Press

In this first biographical study in English of “la superbe Argentine,” originally published in 1979, Doris Meyer considers Victoria Ocampo’s role in introducing European and North American writers and artists to the South American public—through the pages

  • Copyright year: 1989
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Rereading the Spanish American Essay

Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women’s Essays

Edited by Doris Meyer
University of Texas Press

This book collects thirty-six notable essays by twenty-two women writers, including Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario Ferré, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay

Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Edited by Doris Meyer
University of Texas Press

This volume of twenty-one original studies by noted experts in Latin American literature seeks to recover and celebrate the accomplishments of Latin American women essayists.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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This America of Ours

The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo

University of Texas Press

The previously unpublished correspondence between two of the most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America.

  • Copyright year: 2003
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