SOURCE: “Woman as Metaphorical System: An Analysis of Gabriela Mistral's Poem ‘Fruta,’” in Woman as Myth and Metaphor in Latin American Literature, edited by Carmelo Virgillo and Naomi Lindstrom, University of Missouri Press, 1985, pp. 137–50.
In the following essay, Virgilio advances a metaphorical understanding of Mistral's use of the conventional image of women and of women's roles in her poetry.
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