Abstract
This work traces Gabriela Mistral's epistolary files, with a special emphasis on the signs that place senders and receivers in queer times and spaces. Focused, as she was, on the initial stage of her career, this research demonstrates how Mistral rehearses rhetorical strategies that allow her, first of all, to stage a type of queer friendship (virile friendship) and, from there, establish relationships of affective exchanges (queer sociability) with scholars from the Americas, particularly with Alberto Nin Frías, her first diplomatic and openly homosexual friend.
Translated title of the contribution | Of trees and the screen: The virile friendship through Alberto Nin Frías and Gabriela Mistral |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 119-144 |
Number of pages | 26 |
Journal | Cuadernos de Literatura |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 42 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- Alberto Nin Frías
- Friendship cultural aspects
- Gabriela mistral
- Letters
- Queer sociability
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Literature and Literary Theory