Poetry and the Realm of the Public Intellectual

Karen Pena

• 1. Introduction 2. Poetics of Transfiguration: Projections of Self and Other in Gabriela Mistral’s Mexico 3. Lamentations from the Otherworld: Greek Myth and Sexuality in the Poetry of Gabriela Mistral 4. A Stranger to Myself: Poetic Explorations of the (Feminine) Self in Cecília Meireles 5. Tico-Tico Leaves Fuba: US–Brazilian Narratives and Social Poetic Critiques in Cecília Meireles (1940–1953) 6. Mothers and Counter-Myths in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos: Dreams of Creative and Reproductive Choice 7. Caught in the Colloquial Cell: Infanticide, Matricide, and Logocide in the Poetry of Rosario Castellanos 8. Conclusion