Author: Acuna, Angelina.
Title: El Llamado de la Cumbre: Prosas. (Seleccion Minima).
Description: Guatemala: Editorial del Ministerio de Educacion Publica, 1960. 1960. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The spine is darkened with the head chipped. The wraps are lightly foxed & soiled. The front wrap is darkened along the spine with some staining to the top & front edges. The rear wrap is unevenly darkened. 98 pages & [2] leaves plus colophon. The gutters & the edges of the pages are darkened. Good.

First edition, limited to 1,500 copies.

Maria Angelina Acuna Sagastume de Castaneda [1905-2006] was a Guatemalan writer of prose and poetry. A major poet in her country, Acuna began publishing poetry in the 1930s. Her skillful use of language helped her to succeed and gain recognition in a society where men's intelligence was still believed to be superior to women's. Unlike some of her fellow Guatemalan female writers, like Elisa Hall de Asturias who gave up writing because of the prevailing misogyny, or Magdelena Spinola who faced ostracism during the dictatorship of Jorge Ubico Castaneda, Acuna was able to manipulate language and use poetic form to address the culture without appearing to be a threat. She celebrated her nationalism by employing imagery of mother earth's fertility to evoke both pride in her homeland and address the patriarchy of her times without explicit confrontation. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; CENTRAL AMERICAN LITERATURE; GUATEMALAN LITERATURE; GUATEMALAN POET; FEMALE GUATEMALAN AUTHOR; ANGELINA ACUNA; EL LLAMADO DE LA CUMBRE: PROSAS. (SELECCION MINIMA); MISOGYNY; PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY; LIMITED EDITION; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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