The book Mama Blanca’s Memoirs is about the narrator who recalls her earlier years as a young girl and her time spent around the central figure of the novel, Mama Blanca. While the book itself is called Mama Blanca’s Memoirs, the novella is actually a memoir of the author or the narrator recalling her memories […]
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De La Parra’s story is simple yet filled with poetry, art, memory and emotion. I am very grateful that Mama Blanca’s Memoirs were published; it is a gift that we can read them. Originally the book filled with her story was meant not to be shown to anyo…
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De La Parra’s story is simple yet filled with poetry, art, memory and emotion. I am very grateful that Mama Blanca’s Memoirs were published; it is a gift that we can read them. Originally the book filled with her story was meant not to be shown to anyo…
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Hello! This week’s reading was on Mama Blanca’s Memoirs written by Teresa De la Parra and I thought it was an incredible story to start off the course. As the story is narrated by a young Blanca Nieves, I found it interesting how the narration highlights an innocent perspective of serious topics or recollections of […]
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Mama Blanca’s Memoirs by Teresa de la Parra is a fictional edited memoir of a woman who grew up as the daughter of the owner of a plantation in Venezuela but then moves to the capital city Caracas when he sells the plantation. Some of the themes that interested me most were of beauty, nostalgia and …
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week2. mama blanca’s memoirs I enjoyed reading Mama Blanca’s Memoirs. Other than the simple, yet captivating storylines and interesting frame narrative, I loved the beauty of the words and the prose that made up most of the novel. It felt very fitting that both Mama Blanca (elderly) and Blanca Nieves (childhood) had this sixth sense of […]
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Teresa de la Parra’s Mama Blanca’s Memoirs, with its interlaced filtered and unfiltered accounts of childhood memories, illuminated my own long-buried childhood memories. As I reached the end of the book, I found myself struggling to recall the last time I shared my own experiences with someone. I surmised that Mama Blanca’s motivation for creating … Continue reading Mama Blanca’s Memoirs
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Mama Blanca’s Memoirs was an interesting read, namely because it was just recounting memories of a past filled with happiness and joy. Typically, when I read memoirs, they’re filled with sorrow and failure, so reading something that just felt like a nostalgic memory threw me off for a bit. It almost felt like I was […]
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Mama Blanca’s Memoirs, for all its intriguing subject matter on the loss of innocence and the advancement of culture, has the greatest effect on the reader when describing female relations as well as the contrasting attitudes of their generations. In the unlikely friendship–or perhaps guardianship–between an older woman “not yet seventy” and a young girl […]
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I found this quite an interesting read, as memoirs often are. It’s impossible to write about this book without mentioning the forward because I think it adds a really interesting layer to the story. The narrator was not related to Mama Blanca but…
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