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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Hi everyone! I found this week’s reading rather interesting as I haven’t read a lot of memoirs in the past. I am not a very fast reader so this reading took me a while and I found myself doing it in shorter blocks of time, which I wish I hadn’t a…
Hi everyone! I found this week’s reading rather interesting as I haven’t read a lot of memoirs in the past. I am not a very fast reader so this reading took me a while and I found myself doing it in shorter blocks of time, which I wish I hadn’t a…
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The memoir’s of Mama Blanca seemed to be possible examples of euphoria vs. nostalgia, and rural life vs. city life. Furthermore, I would say the question on modernity is more present than suspected since there was so much reference to european concepts (some I can quite remember) like religion and historical mentions of Simon Bolivar […]
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The memoir’s of Mama Blanca seemed to be possible examples of euphoria vs. nostalgia, and rural life vs. city life. Furthermore, I would say the question on modernity is more present than suspected since there was so much reference to european concepts (some I can quite remember) like religion and historical mentions of Simon Bolivar […]
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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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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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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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