Two Women Poets of the Modernirty: Nahui Olin and Gabriela Mistral in Post Revolutionary Mexico

Abstract

The present paper talks about the confluence of writers Na hui Olin and Gabriela Mistral in post-revolutionary Mexico between 1922-1923 and their attempts to define their subjectivity and be part of a public space still predominantly masculine. The author claims that, although both women use different strategies to accomplish that goal, they have in common a clear self-conscience that both build not only through their
writing but also through their public image, which is ambiguous and ambivalent, a clear reflex of a moment in which Mexico lived a phase of transition and self-definition in its attempt to reach modernity.