As someone who rarely reads literature, I had a great time reading Mama Blanca’s memoirs. The variety of themes covered in this book were thought-provoking. While the story is set in 20th-century Venezuela, the discussion and portrayal o…
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As someone who rarely reads literature, I had a great time reading Mama Blanca’s memoirs. The variety of themes covered in this book were thought-provoking. While the story is set in 20th-century Venezuela, the discussion and portrayal o…
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As someone who rarely reads literature, I had a great time reading Mama Blanca’s memoirs. The variety of themes covered in this book were thought-provoking. While the story is set in 20th-century Venezuela, the discussion and portrayal o…
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I appreciate the significance of Mama Blanca’s Memoirs, as history is not often recollected from the perspective of women, much less pieced together from memories of girlhood. The written iteration of Blanca’s oral reflections on her childhood provides a uniquely personal look into 19th-century Latin America. I found the book quite dense and granular in its […]
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While reading the first twelve acts of Celestina, I decided to take notes on the themes surrounding, and interactions, with money. Initially, the play highlights the difference money causes in a given person’s social class, and how a noble has a severely different view on money than a proletariat. Calisto’s perspective on money is put […]
Hello blog readers, The reading for this week was Mama Blanca’s Memoirs by Teresa de la Parra. As my first official blog post for this class, I was unsure of what to write about, but the foreword of the novel led me to have questions I wanted to …
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Hello blog readers, The reading for this week was Mama Blanca’s Memoirs by Teresa de la Parra. As my first official blog post for this class, I was unsure of what to write about, but the foreword of the novel led me to have questions I wanted to …
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In the novel, Mama Blanca’s Memoirs (1929), Teresa de la Parra beautifully depicts memories of the past, and this is explored through the eyes of a young girl.Blanca Nieves, an old woman, depicts her life to the young girl through a collection of …
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In the novel, Mama Blanca’s Memoirs (1929), Teresa de la Parra beautifully depicts memories of the past, and this is explored through the eyes of a young girl.Blanca Nieves, an old woman, depicts her life to the young girl through a collection of …
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Wow. Teresa de la Parra’s “Mama Blanca’s Memoirs” was such an interesting read and made me feel nostalgic in a way. The second paragraph in the Foreword, where she wrote “It was not kinship that bound me to Mama Blanca, but mysterious spiritual affinities that in the commerce of souls weave the brief or enduring […]
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