It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves. — Rosario (image via Mexican Department of Culture) In 1950s Mexico, Rosario Castellanos was an outlier. She was a woman living alone, teaching at Western institutions and exploring the intersectionality of race, gender and class in her own sliver of Mexico. Professors teach her poem "Valium 10" as South America's answer to Sylvia Plath. In the verses, she describes the anxiety of daily life:
A Woman to Know: Rosario Castellanos
A Woman to Know: Rosario Castellanos
A Woman to Know: Rosario Castellanos
It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves. — Rosario (image via Mexican Department of Culture) In 1950s Mexico, Rosario Castellanos was an outlier. She was a woman living alone, teaching at Western institutions and exploring the intersectionality of race, gender and class in her own sliver of Mexico. Professors teach her poem "Valium 10" as South America's answer to Sylvia Plath. In the verses, she describes the anxiety of daily life: