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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (120): 35–51.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Licia Fiol-Matta Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) was born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the remote Elqui Valley of Chile. She ascended from prototypical small-town schoolteacher to the most famous Latin American woman of her time in her multiple guises as educator, diplomat, and poet. For decades this 1945...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (94): 148–154.
Published: 01 January 2006
... to emerge in the past few years from the interdisciplinary field of queer theory.1 In a study of the Chilean Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral, Fiol-Matta demonstrates how Mistral’s queerness — including a series of affairs with women, a non-normative gender presentation, and a spectacularly...
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (120): 1–11.
Published: 01 October 2014
... of the various ways that pressures are applied to archival knowledge to make it yield (to) a distinct array of often conflict- ing “engagements.” In “A Queer Mother for the Nation Redux: Gabriela Mistral in the Twenty-First Century,” Fiol-Matta revisits the career of Gabriela Mistral’s sexuality...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (124): 177–191.
Published: 01 January 2016
... for various solemn events throughout history. In 1957 a three-­day vigil was held there for the body of poet Gabriela Mistral; more than 170,000 Chileans came to pay their respects for the Nobel laureate.21 The hall is an emblematic place, and during the student mobilizations it became a central...
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (120): 226–228.
Published: 01 October 2014
...-Matta is professor of Latin American, Latino, and Puerto Rican studies at Lehman College, CUNY, and the PhD program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian languages and litera- tures at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral (2002). Her...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (100): 1–9.
Published: 01 January 2008
... or mandated by heterosexuals, as Licia Fiol-Matta’s study of the queer Chilean poet and educational reformer Gabriela Mistral makes clear.7 Yet the current focus within gay and lesbian movements and culture on the family and reproduction as vehicles for claiming citizenship and rights works to suture...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (124): 102–116.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Editores, 2014). 114  Radical History Review 4. Poetry occupies a prominent place in the public realm in Chile, due in part to the omnipresence of two major literary figures, Gabriela Mistral (Nobel Prize, 1945) and Pablo Neruda (Nobel Prize, 1971), whose work certainly forms part...