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Guadalupe Frias was an early participant of the Chicano Movement and participated in the Chicano Student Movement. The purpose of this interview was to better understand mestizaje ideology and its popularity during the height of the Chicano Movement. Frias discusses her participation within the Chicano Movement and her understanding of the concept of mestizaje.
Guadalupe Olguin was an early participant of the Chicano Movement and an early member of El Teatro Campesino and the Brown Berets. The purpose of this interview was to better understand mestizaje ideology and its popularity during the height of the Chicano Movement. Olguin discusses her participation within the Chicano Movement and her understanding of the concept of mestizaje.
Lupe Valdez was an early participant of the Chicano Movement and El Teatro Campesino, of which she is still associated. The purpose of this interview was to better understand mestizaje ideology and its popularity during the height of the Chicano Movement. Valdez discusses her participation within the Chicano Movement and her understanding of the concept of mestizaje.
During her interview with Esteban Peicovich at her Buenos Aires home, María Angélica Bosco talks about her beginnings as a writer, her family, her friends (Argentine writers, Silvina Bullrich, Martha Lynch and Silvia Poletti), famous authors who influenced her (Graham Greene and G.K. Chesterton), and the themes of her literary works. Five of her books were detective stories, but she was most interested in social issues, like the situation of women in the Argentine middle class of the 1950s. Her books include La muerte baja en el ascensor, La muerte soborna a Pandora, La trampa, El comedor de diario, Doinde está el cordero?, La Negra Vélez y su ángel, Historia privada, Cartas de mujeres, Retorno a "La Ilusioin", En la estela de un secuestro, Muerte en la costa del río, En la piel del otro, La muerte vino de afuera, El soitano, Las burlas del porvenir, and Tres historias de mujeres. Her published books also include essays like Borges y los otros and Carta abierta a Judas. Bosco wrote several scripts for a detective series called Divisioin Homicidios, from 1977 to 1979. She received several awards and was named woman of the year in 1987. Bosco talks about her autobiography, Memoria de las casas, her diaries, her everyday life at her 91 years, her friendship with J.L. Borges and Julio Cortazar's correspondence with her. The interview ends with Bosco reading one of her stories, Un lunes diferente.
In the first part of this program, Esteban Peicovich talks with Pepa Acedo, a Spanish female journalist, about her literary beginnings and her views on sex discrimination and women's rights. They also talk about her latest book, Woman Memory of Autumn amid the struggle of women to be part of a male-dominated world. She also talks about her poetry and reads some of it. In the second part, Peicovich talks with Ana Padovani about her definition of a storyteller and the history of the art of storytelling.
During his interview with Esteban Peicovich, Rafael Bielsa discusses his latest book of short stories, Sombras nada más, about different periods in his life since 1974 in Argentina. They talk about Vargas Llosa's book, Fiesta del chivo, to explain how a writer can make an interesting novel of a tragic story. They also discuss the state of poetry in Argentina, the lack of interest of the State government on cultural aspects, Bielsa's public post as the Nation's Trustee, his beginnings as a writer and the books he has published.
Rodolfo Abularach talks with Esteban Peicovich in New York City about his origins as an artist, and how his art was influenced by Mayan art and bullfighting. Also a writer and musician, Abularach explains the origins and different types of Latin American folk music, including the subgenres of flamenco: the solear, the seguidilla and buleria. He demonstrates these rhythms with his guitar and singing.
