Research Catalog

Title

Anita Brenner, una mujer extraordinaria / Susannah Joel Glusker ; Prólogo de Carlos Monsiváis.

Author

Glusker, Susannah Joel

Publication

Aguascalientes : Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes, 2006.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Brenner, Anita, 1905-1974
• Monsiváis, Carlos.

Description

370 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Journalist, historian, anthropologist, art critic, and creative writer, Anita Brenner was one of Mexico's most sympathetic and discerning interpreters. Born to a Jewish immigrant family in Mexico a few years before the Revolution of 1910, she matured into an independent liberal who defended Mexico, workers, and all those who were treated unfairly, whatever their origin or nationality. In this book, her daughter, Susannah Glusker, traces Anita Brenner's intellectual growth and achievements from the 1920s through the 1940s. Quoting extensively from Brenner's unpublished journals and autobiographical novel, as well as from her published books and articles, Glusker paints an engrossing portrait of the intellectual circles in which Brenner moved in Mexico City and New York, which included such figures as Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jean Charlot. Glusker describes the origin and impact of Brenner's three major books, all of which grew out of a lifelong devotion to her native land - a devotion that also manifested itself in her championship of Mexico as a haven for Jewish immigrants in the early 1920s. Along the way, Glusker records Brenner's support of many liberal and radical causes, including the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.

Uniform Title

Anita Brenner, a mind of own. Spanish

Alternative Title

Anita Brenner, a mind of own.

Subject

• Brenner, Anita, 1905-1974
• 1900-1999
• Journalists > Mexico > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-352) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9709885057
• 7502005403648 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 444721753
• SCSB-11369773

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library