Amigas: Letters of Friendship and Exile

By Emma Sepúlveda and Marjorie Agosín

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292705069
• ISBN13: 9780292705067
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Letters: a lost literary gender

It is an interesting book about the correspondence between two friends that meet in their country,Chile. But, life is very unjust, and for political reasons both have to leave their land. The letters, that they write to each other through many years, tell their stories of survival and they explain, from their point of view and in a epistolar style, what each of them have to endure to became women citizens, mothers, academics and profesors,etc. in this country. Their experiences are not unknow or irreal, they are very realistics, a common ground for many women that are gone through the same or similar path. This book is a document: a good book for women and men who love literature, books, and academic work.