SOURCE: “Beyond the Mother Icon: Rereading the Poetry of Gabriela Mistral,” in Revista Hispanica Moderna, Vol. 50, No. 2, December, 1997, pp. 327–34.
In the following essay, Ryan-Kobler argues that Mistral's poetry contradicts the accepted, simplified image of Mistral as the saintly mother of Latin America.
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