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From the Diary of Madame Mao

From the Diary of Madame Mao

Neisser, Yvette
Ogliastri, María Teresa
Fisher, Patricia Bejarano

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Series: Carnegie Mellon University Press Translation

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 0887487467
ISBN13: 9780887487460
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: Spanish

Fictionalized poems that embody the reality of life in twentieth-century China through the voice of Jiang Qing, the wife of Mao Zedong.

From the Diary of Madame Mao is a poetry collection of fictionalized diary entries in the voice of Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong and a vilified leader of the Gang of Four, a Maoist political faction which wielded unchecked and violent suppression of dissent during China's Cultural Revolution (1966-76). The haunting voice in this collection recounts the events of twentieth-century China through the imagined inner thoughts of Jiang, a liberated woman in a male-dominated society who struggled to fend for herself but then, upon gaining totalitarian power, became mentally ill. Maria Teresa Ogliastri--who has lived under authoritarian regimes in Venezuela for more than two decades-- opts for compassion in her portrayal of this infamous public figure, conveying the full complexity of human emotion and experience in her singular lyric voice.

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