Maria Zambrano

Two Confessions Maria Zambrano

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Noel Valis is Professor of Spanish at Yale University, and her many books include the award-winning translation of Noni Benegas s poetry, "Burning Cartography."Carol Maier is Professor Emerita of Spanish and Translation Studies at Kent State University and the translator of several books, including the award-winning translation of Rosa Chacel s "Memoirs of Leticia Valle" and Maria Zambrano s "Delirium and Destiny: A Spaniard in Her Twenties," also published by SUNY Press."Table of Contents: Introduction "Noel Valis" Confession "Maria Zambrano" Confession "Rosa Chacel " Afterword: "Pieces of a Scattered Puzzle" "Carol Maier" Annotations Index" Contributor Bio:  Zambrano, Maria Zambrano, in 1988, became the first woman to win the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious award available to Spanish-language writers. Contributor Bio:  Chacel, Rosa Rosa Chacel was born in Vallodolid, Spain, in 1898. She belongs to that brilliant generation of artists that became the cultural vanguard in the 1920s and 1930s: Garcia Lorca, Bunuel, Dali, Alberti, Guillen, Aleixandre. As a result of the fascists' victory in the late thirties, the work of Chacel and other women writers were erased from the cultural memory until recently. In the interim Chacel was exiled in Brazil and Argentina. Currently she lives in Madrid and writes every day. Carol Maier is a professor of Spanish at Kent State University and editor, with Noel Valis, of "In the Feminine Mode," Her other translations include work by Carmen Martin Gaite, Ana Castillo, Octavio Armand, and Severo Sarduy. Contributor Bio:  Valis, Noel Noel Valis is professor of Spanish at Yale University. She is the author of nineteen books, including The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas, The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picon, The Culture of Cursileria: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain and Reading the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel. Contributor Bio:  Maier, Carol Carol Maier is professor of Spanish at Kent State University, where she is affiliated with the Institute for Applied Linguistics. A recipient of translation fellowships from both the NEA and NEH, she has written extensively on translation theory; coedited, with Anuradha Dingwaney, Between Languages and Cultures: Translations and Cross-Cultural Texts; and published translations of work by numerous authors, most recently Nivaria Tejera s The Ravine and Rosa Chacel s Dream of Reason.