Name: Tinisima
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Author: Elena Poniatowska
ISBN: 9780826341235

Type

Physical Book

Author

Elena Poniatowska

Publisher

University Of New Mexico Press

Language

English

Pages

353

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.5 x 17.1 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.57

ISBN

0826341233

ISBN13

9780826341235

Synopsis "Tinisima"

For this fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti (1896-1942), Elena Poniatowska devoted ten years of research to fully understand the woman who was so caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II decades.At different times in her life, Modotti was a silent screen actress, a model for Diego Rivera's murals, and a lover of photographer Edward Weston. She was also a champion for the Mexican people who lovingly referred to her as Tinisima.In 1929, Modotti was accused of the murder of Julio Antonio Mella, her Cuban lover. She fled to the U.S.S.R. to escape the Mexican press and then to Europe, where she became a Soviet secret agent and a nurse under an assumed name, returning to Mexico to meet an early death at the age of forty-five."Poniatowska has made an art form of blending journalism and fiction. She tells this novel in an urgent present tense, segueing among short, vivid scenes with cinematic virtuosity. Ten years of research and a thorough knowledge of the currents of history contribute to this portrait, but equally important is Poniatowska's intuitive appreciation of a woman shaped and destroyed by her tumultuous times."--Publishers Weekly"Poniatowska's profoundly moving evocation of her heroine's boundless soul flows like blood through the carefully erected factual structure of the real Modotti's astonishing life story. . . . A tour de force, Tinisima is a work to treasure."--Booklist

Elena Poniatowska

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Elena Poniatowska (Paris, 1932), Mexican writer and journalist of French-Polish origin, arrived in Mexico at the age of nine fleeing World War II. After studying in a religious boarding school in the U.S., she began her career at the newspaper Excelsior and established herself as a key voice in journalism and Spanish literature. Founder of media outlets like La Jornada and magazines like Fem, she combined her literary work with social and feminist activism. Author of emblematic works such as La noche de Tlatelolco (chronicle of the 1968 student movement) and novels like Leonora (about Leonora Carrington), she has received awards such as the Cervantes (2013), the Alfaguara (2001), and the Rómulo Gallegos (2007). Her works span novels, essays, poetry, and children's literature, always with a commitment to justice and historical memory.

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