A Queer Mother For The Nation

The State And Gabriela Mistral

By: Licia Fiol-Matta

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Paperback | 11 February 2002

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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 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 social essays, her correspondence and photographs, Fiol-Matta reconstructs Mistral's relationship to state politics. 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

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory Biographies & True Stories Biographies Literary Biographies Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature

History Regional & National History History of the Americas Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Schoolteacher of America
A Gay Hagiography?
Race Woman	p. 3
Schooling and Sexuality	p. 37
Citizen Mother	p. 65
Intimate Nationalism	p. 94
Queering the State
Image Is Everything	p. 125
Pedagogy, Humanities, Social Unrest	p. 158
Education and Loss	p. 186
Epilogue: The "National Minority Stereotype"	p. 213
Notes	p. 221
Index	p. 257
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The State And Gabriela Mistral

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