Rosario Castellanos
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Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (Spanish pronunciation: [rosa kasteanos]; 25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. She was one of Mexico's most influential literary voices in the last century. She wrote eloquently about cultural and gender injustice throughout her life, and her writing has influenced Mexican feminist theory and cultural studies. Though she died young, she opened the door of Mexican literature to women and left a legacy that continues to resonate today.
Life
She was born in Comitán, Mexico, near her family's ranch in Chiapas' southern state. She was an introverted teenage girl who noticed the plight of the indigenous Maya who was employed by her family. After a soothsayer predicted that one of her mother's two children would die shortly, she felt alienated from her family, according to her own story, "Not the boy!" her mother yelled out.
The family's fortunes changed dramatically when President Lázaro Cárdenas introduced a land reform and pesant emancipation bill, stripping the family of a substantial portion of its land ownership. Castellanos and her parents immigrated to Mexico City at the age of fifteen. Both of her parents died in 1948, leaving her orphaned at 23 years of age.
Despite being introverted, she joined a group of Mexican and Central American intellectuals, read a lot, and began to write. She studied philosophy and literature at UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico), where she would later teach and joined the National Indigenous Institute, and developed scripts for puppet shows staged in impoverished regions to promote literacy. President Cárdenas had initiated the institute, but her family had inherited it. She has also written a weekly column for the newspaper Excélsior.
In 1958, Ricardo Guerra Tejada, a philosophy professor, married her. Gabriel Guerra Castellanos, the son of their father, was born in 1961 (now a political scientist) in Castellanos; prior to his birth, she suffered from depression following several miscarriages. However, Guerra and Guerra divorced after thirteen years of marriage, with Guerra failing to be unfaithful to Castellanos. Her personal life was marred by her difficult marriage and continuing depression, but she dedicated a substantial portion of her life and energy to defending women's rights, for which she is remembered as a symbol of Latin American feminism.
Castellanos held several government positions in addition to her literary work. Castellanos was appointed ambassador to Israel in 1971 in recognition for her contributions to Mexican literature.
Castellanos died in Tel Aviv from an electrical accident on August 7, 1974. Any accident investigators suspected that the fire was actually suicide. Martha Cerda, a Mexican writer, wrote to journalist Lucina Kathmann, "I believe she died even though she already felt she was dead for a long time." However, there are no facts to back such a belief.