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Vivancos Pérez, Ricardo F. "Marjorie Agosín's Poetics of Memory: Human Rights, Feminism, and Literary Forms." Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women's Lives, Human Rights. Ed. Debra Bergoffen, Paula Ruth Gilbert, Tamara Harvey, and Connie L. McNeely. Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2010.
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women's college at which, at the age of thirty-seven, she became one of the youngest women ever to obtain the rank of full professor in the history of the institution, and at which, after more than twenty years, she continues to teach.
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Agosín is a prolific author: her published books, including those she has written as well as those she has edited, number over eighty. She has published several books of fiction, among them two collections of short stories:
388:(2000). In each of these books, the prevailing theme is that of the Jewish immigrant who is trying to find a place in Latin American society. She contributed the piece "Women of smoke" to the 1984 anthology 390: 1083:
Reinares, Laura Barberán (2010). "Globalized Philomels: State Patriarchy, Transnational Capital, and the Fermicides on the US- Mexican Border in Roberto Bolaño's
275:, where she lived with her Jewish family in a German community. While she was raised to appreciate her Jewish heritage, her family also appreciated the dominant 44: 51: 1230: 1245: 627: 1265: 1260: 856: 1057: 251:. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2000. She is a recipient of the 1290: 1285: 1255: 1215: 1118: 102: 74: 35: 1240: 1205: 712: 1295: 605: 592: 495: 456: 81: 1275: 1270: 411: 1250: 1169: 88: 1300: 1220: 1210: 579: 566: 553: 534: 521: 508: 482: 121: 283:
for her and her mother adored the beauty of the Catholic churches in Chile. Agosín attended the Hebrew School in
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Agosín began to write poetry in Spanish when she was ten years old, and although she speaks both English and
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in Latin American Literature. After receiving her degree, her first job was as an assistant professor at
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of September 11, 1973, she left with her family to live in the United States.
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writer. She has gained notability for her outspokenness for women's rights in
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Violeta Parra: santa de pura greda : un estudio de su obra poética
380:(1995). The later two volumes related the story of her father's life, 342: 728:. Hall, Nancy Abraham. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 713:
Memorial de una escritura: aproximaciones a la obra de Marjorie Agosín
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Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology
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Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father
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translated by Lori Marie Carlson (Swan Isle Press, 2009), and
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translated by Lori Marie Carlson (Swan Isle Press, 2010),
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Wellesley College Public Affairs Profile: Marjorie Agosin
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These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women
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EN GRADO DE GRAN OFICIAL A LA DOCTORA MARJORIE AGOSIN"
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Agosín was born in 1955 to Moises and Frida Agosín in
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Women, gender, and human rights: a global perspective
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A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile
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Secrets in the Sand (and the night was a precipice)
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