The 100 Years of Rosario Castellanos: a Committed Life Marked by Tragedy

If Macondo resonates as the magical place where miracles occur and the ghosts of the Latin American tragedy inhabit, Comitán, in the State of Chiapas, is the microcosm of social tensions, cultural shocks and gender subjugation that announces and denounces the work of the Mexican writer Rosario Castellanos, that this Sunday would have celebrated her hundred birthday. Both towns, one imaginary and the other real, become territories that warn from …

Virginia BautistaAlegre, accessible and passionate, but at the same time sad and lonely; a bridge that united the women, defender of the indigenous and good teacher. This is how they remember the poet, narrator and diplomat Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) the writers Margo Glantz (1930) and Elena Poniatowska (1932), his contemporary. Castellanos lived in front of the Forest of Chapultepec, his house was on Constituent Avenue, but he never crosse…

For 26 years Rosario Castellanos dedicated his best moments, the most lucid and the most complete, to creating a work that expressed it as a whole body and that at the same time was a record of the world and the social context that he had to live. Rosario Castellanos (Mexico City, 25 May 1925-Tel Aviv, Israel, 7 August 1974), a Mexican narrator and poet, considered in this second genre the most important of the twentieth century in his country. …

Rosario Castellanos has not been given the place he deserves. I wonder how much we prefer to idolize literary figures more because of his legend than because of his literature. In addition, little or nothing is recognized as a philosopher. Rosario Castellanos was also a great philosopher By Évolet Aceves / X: @EvoletAceves Rosarios Castellanos was born in Mexico City just a hundred years ago, on 25 May 1925. Thanks to the journalistic and litera…

CITY OF MEXICO / SemMexico.- On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the Mexican writer and feminist Rosario Castellanos was announced the celebration of a national tribute that will begin in May and continue until 2026, with a hundred activities and from different institutions. It is considered pioneer of the promotion of awareness about the human rights of women. It is poet, philosopher, indigenist and feminist. It broke with many ide…