María Flora Yáñez

María Flora Yáñez
Born
María Flora Yáñez Bianchi

September 1898
Chile
DiedApril 7, 1982(1982-04-07) (aged 83)
Chile
OccupationWriter
Years active1954–1982
ChildrenAlfonso Echevarría, Mónica Echeverría
FatherEliodoro Yáñez
Awards

María Flora Yáñez Bianchi (September 1898 – 7 April 1982)[1] was a Chilean writer who worked in the novel and short story genres,[2][3] for which she received the University of Concepción's Atenea Award in 1947[4][5] and the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in 1952.[6]

Biography

María Flora Yáñez's father was Eliodoro Yáñez, the Chilean politician and founder of La Nación.[7] Her children were also writers, Alfonso Echevarría (1922–1969) and Mónica Echeverría (1920-2020).[4][8]

Her literary work is part of the trend in women's literature of her time, "which is ascribed to the autobiographical and personal form," among which are the works of Marta Brunet (1901), María Luisa Bombal (1910) and María Carolina Geel [es] (1911).[2][9][10][11] She is included in a group of students assigned to the "Subjectivist School" present not only in Chilean women's literature,[9] but also in the women's contemporary novel.[12]

Some of her texts such as Espejo sin imagen (1936), Icha (1945), Aguas obsuras (1945), Juan Estrella (1954), and Gertrudis (1954) are cataloged as a kind of "autobiographical fiction in the first person".[2] Regarding one of her first publications, El abrazo de la tierra (1933), Lucía Guerra-Cunningham [es] includes it within those texts referring to the women's liberation movement, because it treats marriage as synonymous with "mortal boredom", a sacrament that at the beginning of the 20th century was associated with the conservative ideology of Chilean society.[13]

Yáñez also wrote for several magazines and newspapers, including El Mercurio, El Diario Ilustrado [es], and Atenea.[14]

Works

  • El abrazo de la tierra (1933)
  • Mundo en sombra (1935)
  • Espejo sin imagen (novel, 1936)
  • Visiones de infancia (1947)
  • Las cenizas (novel, 1949)
  • La piedra (novel, 1952)
  • El estanque (short stories, Ediciones La Semana Literaria, 1945 and 1954)
  • Visiones de infancia (1960)
  • ¿Dónde está el trigo y el vino? (1962)
  • Otra comarca (1963)
  • El último faro (1967)
  • Juan Estrella (1970)
  • El peldaño (1974)
  • Historia de mi vida: fragmentos (Nascimento, 1980)

References

  1. ^ "María Flora Yáñez (1898-1982) - Memoria Chilena".
  2. ^ a b c Orozco Vera, María Jesús (1994). "La forma autobiográfica como configuración del discurso literario femenino en la narrativa de Marta Brunet, María Flora Yánez, María Luisa Bombal y María Carolina Geel" [The Autobiographical Form as a Configuration of Women's Literary Discourse in the Narrative of Marta Brunet, María Flora Yánez, María Luisa Bombal, and María Carolina Geel]. Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana (in Spanish). 23 (23): 295. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  3. ^ Ojeda, Loreto Cecilia (1994). Estrategias de la representación de lo femenino en la novela chilena escrita por mujeres (1939–1963) [Strategies for the Representation of the Feminine in the Chilean Novel Written By Women (1939–1963)] (PDF) (Thesis) (in Spanish). University of Arizona Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  4. ^ a b Szmulewicz, Efraín. Diccionario de la Literatura Chilena [Dictionary of Chilean Literature]. Andrés Bello. pp. 419–420. Retrieved 30 January 2018 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Orozco Vera, María Jesús (1995). La narrativa femenina chilena, 1923–1980: escritura y enajenación [The Chilean Feminine Narrative, 1923–1980: Writing and Alienation] (in Spanish). Anubar Ediciones. p. 98. ISBN 9788470132575. Retrieved 30 January 2018 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Rojas Piña, Benjamín; Pinto Villarroel, Patricia; Rubio de Lértora, Patricia (1994). "María Flora Yáñez". Escritoras chilenas [Chilean Women Writers] (in Spanish). Editorial Cuarto Propio. p. 122. ISBN 9789562601627. Retrieved 3 February 2018 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Sánchez Latorre, Luis (August 2000). "Sobre el lenguaje del desprecio" [On the Language of Contempt]. Memorabilia: impresiones y recuerdos (in Spanish). LOM Ediciones. p. 113. ISBN 9789562822213. Retrieved 30 January 2018 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Peña Muñoz, Manuel (1982). Historia de la literatura infantil chilena [History of Chilean Children's Literature] (in Spanish). Ándres Bello. p. 82. Retrieved 30 January 2018 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ a b Orozco Vera, María Jesús (1996). "La narrativa femenina chilena (1923–1980)" [The Chilean Female Narrative (1923–1980)] (PDF). Cauce (in Spanish) (16): 295–319. ISSN 0212-0410. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  10. ^ Orozco Vera, María Jesús (1997–1998). "Literatura y Subversión, proyección de la fantasía en la obra de Marta Brunet, Flora Yáñez y Ma. Luisa Bombal" [Literature and Subversion, Projection of Fantasy in the Work of Marta Brunet, Flora Yáñez, and María Luisa Bombal] (PDF). Cauce (in Spanish) (20–21): 909–928. ISSN 0212-0410. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  11. ^ Sánchez Ambriz, Ana María (2011). "Olivia Zúñiga, poeta y novelista jalisciense" [Olivia Zúñiga, Jalisco Poet and Novelist]. Sincronía (in Spanish). ISSN 1562-384X. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  12. ^ Guerra-Cunningham, Lucía (1994). "Invasión a los cuarteles del silencio: estrategias del discurso de la sexualidad en la novela de la mujer latinoamericana" [Invasion of the Barracks of Silence: Strategies for the Discourse of Sexuality in the Latin American Women's Novel]. Inti (in Spanish) (40): 49–58. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  13. ^ "Naturalizaciones del Deseo y el Saber en los textos de María Luisa Bombal" [Naturalizations of Desire and Knowledge in the Texts of María Luisa Bombal] (PDF). Anales de Literatura Chilena (in Spanish). 13 (17): 133–146. June 2012. ISSN 0717-6058. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  14. ^ López-Cotín, Olga (1993). La novela femenina en Chile de 1909 a 1991 [The Feminine Novel in Chile from 1909 to 1991] (in Spanish). University of Michigan. p. 108. Retrieved 2 February 2018 – via Google Books.