Invisible Dreamer
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Acknowledgments6Prologue9Introduction16Trespassing Language: Writing and ExileThe Alphabet in My Hand23Always Living in Spanish: Recovering the Familiar through Language25A Writer's Thoughts on Translation30In Search of a Nomad: Gabriela Mistral and Her World37Gabriela Mistral: Writing on My Knees61Gabriela Mistral's Libraries65Liliana Lorca71An Open Notebook: Pablo Neruda81A Necklace of Words85The Cartographies of Love: FamiliesTo Imagine a Ship93The Angel of Memory: Helena Broader95Estefania103Sonia from Odessa106Frail Suitcase110Josefina116Frida, Friduca, Mami122Carmen Carrasco131Delfina136Torah140Through a Field of Stars, I Remember141Reflections on Authoritarianism and Anti-semitism in Chile150Between Worlds157Women and the Jewish Imaginary in Latin America169Where Esther Lives180Jewish Women in Latin America191The Persistence of Memory: Human Rights in the AmericasTraces198Autumn of the Mothers201In the Heart of the Forest, Someone Remembers215Chile in My Heart221Memory and Exile230No Homecoming for a Dictator237El President244The President245Sites of Memory246Epilogue266List of Translators271About the Press272
\ Library Journal"Chile, that long stretch of land that poets have blessed and dictators abused," begins Agosin in this expansive anthology concerning creative writing and human rights. A poet, translator, critic, and advocate of freedom, this Chilean Jewish author is especially attuned to Jewish, feminist, and Latin American writers and the rights of those in exile. She has written some 40 books, and many of the passages here have appeared in various academic journals or were originally parts of speeches delivered throughout the United States. In the early 1970s, Agosin and her family fled Pinochet's regime for the United States, where she entered high school and began what she calls her life as "a person in translation." Having felt like an exile for most of her life (she insists that she is not bicultural), Agosin allows Invisible Dreamer to fulfill her need to speak for the underrepresented. While this book is extremely ambitious in scope, it may be just a little too spread out to do justice to the author's colorful writing, her fascinating life story (and those of her ancestors), and her social consciousness. Each section could have been expanded into a book, and given the author's prolific record, one suspects that they will be. Until then, for the important issues introduced, this is recommended for academic and larger public libraries. Nedra C. Evers, Sacramento P.L. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.\ \
