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Amigas
Letters of Friendship and Exile
Av Marjorie Agosín, Emma Sepúlveda
Häftad, 2001
231 kr
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This collection of letters chronicles a remarkable, long-term friendship between two women who, despite differences of religion and ethnicity, have followed remarkably parallel paths from their first adolescent meeting in their native Chile to their current lives in exile as writers, academics, and …
Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America
Häftad, 2005
277 kr
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Latin America has been a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution from 1492, when Sepharad Jews were expelled from Spain, until well into the twentieth century, when European Jews sought sanctuary there from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Vibrant Jewish communities have deep roots in countries such …
Map of Hope
Women's Writing on Human Rights—an International Literary Anthology
Häftad, 1999
490 kr
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The first international anthology to explore women’s human rights from a literary perspective.More than half a century after the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, women throughout the world still struggle for social and political justice. Many fight back with the only tools of resistance …
Women, Gender, and Human Rights
A Global Perspective
Häftad, 2001
414 kr
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The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses the credo that all human beings are created free and equal. But not until 1995 did the United Nations declare that women’s rights to be human rights, and bring gender issues into the global arena for the first time. The …
Of Earth and Sea
A Chilean Memoir
Häftad, 2008
217 kr
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The Chilean coup d'etat of 1973 was a watershed event in the history of Chile. It was also a defining moment in the life of writer Marjorie Agosin. This collection of prose vignettes and free verse draws upon her experiences as a child in Chile, an expatriate abroad, and a minority Jeweven in the …
Cartographies
Meditations on Travel
Häftad, 2007
316 kr
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On the impulse behind Cartographies, Marjorie Agosín writes, "I have always wanted to understand the meaning of displacement and the quest or longing for home." In these lyrical meditations in prose and poetry, Agosín evokes the many places on four continents she has visited or called home. …
Cross and a Star
Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile
Av Marjorie Agosín, Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman
Häftad, 2022
410 kr
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In this classic memoir that explores the Nazi presence in the south of Chile after the war, Marjorie Agosín writes in the voice of her mother, Frida, who grew up as the daughter of European Jewish immigrants in Chile in the World War II era. Woven into the narrative are the stories of Frida's …
Taking Root
Narratives of Jewish Women in Latin America
Av Marjorie Agosin, Marjorie Agosín
Häftad, 2002
405 kr
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In Taking Root, Latin American women of Jewish descent, from Mexico to Uruguay, recall their coming of age with Sabbath candles and Hebrew prayers, Ladino songs and merengue music, Queen Esther and the Virgin of Guadalupe. Rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jewish immigrant families searched …
Gabriela Mistral
The Audacious Traveler
Av Marjorie Agosin, Marjorie Agosín
Häftad, 2003
445 kr
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Gabriela Mistral is the only Latin American woman writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Even so, her extraordinary achievements in poetry, narrative, and political essays remain largely untold. Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler explores boldly and thoughtfully the complex …
Taking Root
Narratives of Jewish Women in Latin America
E-bok, 2002
680 kr
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In Taking Root, Latin American women of Jewish descent, from Mexico to Uruguay, recall their coming of age with Sabbath candles and Hebrew prayers, Ladino songs and merengue music, Queen Esther and the Virgin of Guadalupe. Rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jewish immigrant families searched …
White Islands / Las Islas Blancas
Häftad, 2016
204 kr
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I only wanted to write about them, / Narrate their fierce audacity, / Their voyages through the channels of the Mediterranean. So begins a poetic journey through the islands of the Mediterranean that served as homes and refuge for the Sephardic Jews after the Alhambra Decree, which ordered their …
I Lived on Butterfly Hill
E-bok, 2014
133 kr
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An eleven-year-old’s world is upended by political turmoil in this “lyrically ambitious tale of exile and reunification” ( Kirkus Reviews ) from an award-winning poet, based on true events in Chile. Celeste Marconi is a dreamer. She lives peacefully among friends and neighbors and family in the …
Maps of Memory
Return to Butterfly Hill
E-bok, 2020
120 kr
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In this “captivating and exquisite” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review) sequel to the Pura Belpré Award–winning I Lived on Butterfly Hill , thirteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns home to Chile and after the dictator is removed, and makes it her mission to rebuild her community and find those who …
Viví en el cerro Mariposa (I Lived on Butterfly Hill)
E-bok, 2022
130 kr
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Now available in Spanish! An eleven-year-old’s world is upended by political turmoil in this “lyrically ambitious tale of exile and reunification” ( Kirkus Reviews ) from an award-winning poet, based on true events in Chile. Celeste Marconi is a dreamer. She lives peacefully among friends and …
Los mapas de la memoria (The Maps of Memory)
Regreso al cerro Mariposa
E-bok, 2022
120 kr
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In this “captivating and exquisite” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review) sequel to the Pura Belpré Award–winning I Lived on Butterfly Hill , thirteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns home to Chile and after the dictator is removed, and makes it her mission to rebuild her community and find those who …
Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement
Av Ignacio López-Calvo, Marjorie Agosin
Inbunden, 2022
1358 kr
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Every American is a descendant of either a Native American, and enslaved person, an immigrant, or a refugee. This book is devoted to the fourth category. The essays in this volume will study the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide …
Stitching Resistance
Women, Creativity, and Fiber Arts
Häftad, 2014
412 kr
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This book gathers a collection of multidisciplinary essays written by distinguished scholars, visual artists, and writers. The common thread of these essays addresses the ways in which fiber arts have enriched and empowered the lives of women throughout the world. From Ancient Greece to the …
Home
An Imagined Landscape
Häftad, 2016
243 kr
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"Our century has become marked by the distinct, bitter tinge of nomadism and emigration." The sixteen essays in this book are by writers from diverse parts of the world recalling their experiences and emotions of what is meant by the concept of Home. Each essay is written with evocative and often …
Braided Memories
Häftad, 2020
545 kr
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In this evocative and emotional work, the poet, novelist, and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin pays homage to her great-grandmother, Helena Broder. As a young woman, Helena escaped Vienna to seek refuge in Chile, leaving shortly after the Night of Broken Glass in 1938 when the Nazi regime …
The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America
Häftad, 2022
229 kr
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This new edition of The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America revisits the meaning of heritage and home, exploring the experience of losing the familiar to embrace the unknown. While often painful in its examination of antisemitism, this collection of essays embraces the …
House of Memory
Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America
Inbunden, 2022
393 kr
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This new edition of The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America revisits the meaning of heritage and home, exploring the experience of losing the familiar to embrace the unknown. While often painful in its examination of antisemitism, this collection of essays embraces the …
Guardian of Memory
Aldo Izzo and the Ancient Jewish Cemetery of Venice
Häftad, 2023
279 kr
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Marjorie Agosin is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, and activist, as well as Professor of Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College. The United Nations has honored her work on human rights, notably for women's rights in Chile. Professor Agosin has won many …
Guardian of Memory
Aldo Izzo and the Ancient Jewish Cemetery of Venice
Inbunden, 2023
399 kr
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Aldo Izzo: Il custode della memoria e l’antico cimitero ebraico di Venezia
Häftad, 2024
279 kr
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Marjorie Agosín è una poetessa pluri-premiata, saggista, narratrice e attivista, oltre che docente di Lingua Spagnola e di Letteratura Latino Americana al Wellesley College. Il suo lavoro sui diritti umani, in particolare sui diritti delle donne in Cile, ha ricevuto il riconoscimento da parte delle …
Aldo Izzo
Il custode della memoria e l'antico cimitero ebraico di Venezia
Inbunden, 2024
410 kr
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Fragmented Geographies
A Short Critical Anthology of Jewish Women's Writing in the Balkans and Latin America
Av Oana Hergenröther, Marjorie Agosín m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
314 kr
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Gifts
An Almanac of Gratitude / Ofrendas: un almanaque de gratitud: An Almanac of Gratitude
Häftad, 2025
279 kr
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In this posthumously published collection of narrative poems, Marjorie Agosín’s intention was to share the culmination of a lifetime of gifts—to be given, received, shared, appreciated, and contemplated—that bring beauty, delight, and wonder to our lives.Marjorie’s many beautiful poems explore …
