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Dynamics of perception, both of self and others, is an idea that stood out to me while reading Teresa de la Parra’s “Mama Blanca’s Memoirs”. I view the concept of identity as being explored through and defined by what a person is not. The dichotomous i... read full post >>

I found this book to be very interesting. It wasn’t my usual preferred kind of novel – to be honest, I found it to be a bit dry and difficult to read even though the writing itself was very poetic and beautiful in how it expressed both the vividness and the retrospective landscape of memories […] read full post >>

    Wow! What a read. Teresa de la Parra's Mama Blanca's Memoirs was a powerful way to start off the semester.     One of the first moments of the book that really struck me was the absence of the children’s mother. B... read full post >>

    Wow! What a read. Teresa de la Parra's Mama Blanca's Memoirs was a powerful way to start off the semester.     One of the first moments of the book that really struck me was the absence of the children’s mother. B... read full post >>

I found this week’s reading very interesting, a great way to start off the term! Mama Blanca’s Memoirs, a novel written by Teresa De la Parra, is a fictional autobiography of a wealthy Venezuelan woman, Blanca Riera, who reflects on her life from childhood to adulthood, narrating her experiences during a politically complicated time of […] read full post >>

I enjoyed reading “Mama Blanca’s Memoirs” this week. I truly love when something you are reading is descriptive and uses strong imagery, and I found Mama Blanca’s Memoirs was full of good imagery to help me envision the stories in my head. The way the memoirs are written, to me, came across as halfway between […] read full post >>

I personally enjoyed reading the work of Teresa de la Parra this week, and some key themes that stuck out to me included the idea of play we discussed in week 1. There were many times where play was seen in the literature, and connecting them together through the form of play on words and […] read full post >>

Mama Blanca’s Memoir by Teresa de la Parra was about the childhood memories of Blanca Nieves in their plantation with her parents, sisters, and caretakers. I personally found this reading quite easy and relatable to follow. Since Blanca Nieves mostly talked about her memories as a child, this made me reflect on my own memories […] read full post >>

Considering that Teresa de la Parra is hardly as legendary a figure as some of the other authors in this course, I quite liked Mama Blanca’s Memoirs. As the oldest book on the syllabus, I expected it to read more like a nineteenth-century text, but found it to be quite stylistically modern, despite its setting. […] read full post >>

     Reading the first couple of pages of this week’s reading where the editor introduces the manuscript of memoirs felt very intriguing. The foreword felt very raw and real, much like I was reading a history book, but one that was ... read full post >>