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Amigas

Letters of Friendship and Exile

Marjorie Agosin author Emma Sepúlveda author Bridget M Morgan translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Texas Press

Published:1st Jul '01

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This collection of letters chronicles a remarkable, long-term friendship between two women who, despite differences of religion and ethnicity, have followed remarkably parallel paths from their first adolescent meeting in their native Chile to their current lives in exile as writers, academics, and political activists in the United States. Spanning more than thirty years (1966-2000), Agosín's and Sepúlveda's letters speak eloquently on themes that are at once personal and political—family life and patriarchy, women's roles, the loneliness of being a religious or cultural outsider, political turmoil in Chile, and the experience of exile.

ISBN: 9780292705067

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm

Weight: 286g

198 pages