My first and foremost thought after fishing reading this novel was: “Why in the world does her memoir almost completely focus on her time spent as a child?”. I guess I had understood memoirs as something that captures memorable experiences throughout a persons entire life, and I think in some ways Mama Blanca’s (yes I […]
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I enjoyed reading Teresa De La Parra’s, “Mama Blanca’s Memoirs,” as it was the first piece of Latin American literature I had ever explored before. The book demonstrates how literature at this time was written with irony, challenging several different social implications and conflict of the time. For example, throughout the memoirs, De La Parra […]
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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Mama Blanca’s Memoirs by Teresa de la Parra was an interesting book, and I’m glad it was the first one we read. It’s a novel written as a memoir – published without permission – of the young Blanca Nieves (meaning Snow White) who eventually becom…
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