{"id":408,"date":"2015-03-15T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eladd.org\/en\/?page_id=408"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:38:49","slug":"mercedes-matamoros","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eladd.org\/en\/other-authors\/mercedes-matamoros\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes Matamoros"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; tablet_fullwidth_cols=&#8221;&#8221; bg_style=&#8221;repeat&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1762918718258{background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: repeat !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;autoras__titulo&#8221;]\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mercedes Matamoros<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(1858-1906)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1816 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/eladd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/icon-space.png\" alt=\"icon-space\" width=\"150\" height=\"8\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; el_id=&#8221;cuerpo&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1762918724817{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;autoras__texto&#8221;]<strong>Mercedes Matamoros (Cuba, 1858-1906)<br \/>\nAlso known as: Mercedes Matamoros y del Valle<br \/>\nPseudonym: Ofelia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1217 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/eladd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mercedes1-200x300.png\" alt=\"mercedes\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author\u2019s Works: Original and Edited (Works are listed in chronological order)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(1881). \u201cLa muerte del esclavo.\u201d Ed. Jos\u00e9 Jacinto Milan\u00e9s. <em>Album milan\u00e9s: colecci\u00f3n de producciones literarias en verso i prosa<\/em>. Matanzas: Imprenta La Nacional. 11.<\/p>\n<p>(1892). <em>Poes\u00edas completas<\/em>. La Habana: Imprenta La Moderna.<br \/>\n&#8212;. Ed. Catharina V. de Vallejo. <em>Poes\u00edas (1892-1906)<\/em>. La Habana: Ediciones Uni\u00f3n, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>(1902). <em>El \u00faltimo amor de Safo<\/em>. Introd. Manuel M\u00e1rquez Sterling. La Habana: n.p.<br \/>\n&#8212;. <em>El \u00faltimo amor de Safo<\/em>. Guanabacoa: Ediciones de las Noches Literarias, 1990.<br \/>\n&#8212;. Ed. Aurora Luque. <em>El \u00faltimo amor de Safo<\/em>. M\u00e1laga: Diputaci\u00f3n, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>(1902). <em>Sonetos<\/em>. La Habana: Tipograf\u00eda La Australia.<\/p>\n<p>(1906). \u201cLa mejor l\u00e1grima.\u201d Ed. Adri\u00e1n del Valle. <em>El parnaso cubano<\/em>. Barcelona: Maucci, 1906. 137-38.<br \/>\n&#8212;, \u201cLa mejor l\u00e1grima.\u201d <em>Esquema hist\u00f3rico-biogr\u00e1fico de la literatura antillana femenina en el siglo XIX<\/em>. Elisa Carmen Colberg. Diss. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989. Ann Arbor: ProQuest\/UMI, 1989. 219.<\/p>\n<p>(1913). Ed. Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez Curquejo. <em>Florilegio de escritoras cubanas<\/em>. Tomo 2. La Habana: Aurelio Miranda, 97-114.<\/p>\n<p>(1926). Ed. Domitila de Garc\u00eda de Coronado. <em>\u00c1lbum po\u00e9tico-fotogr\u00e1fico de escritoras poetisas cubanas, escrito en 1868 para la se\u00f1ora Do\u00f1a Gertrudis G\u00f3mez de Avellaneda<\/em>. La Habana: Imprenta de El F\u00edgaro. 193-98.<\/p>\n<p>(1928). Ed. Jos\u00e9 Manuel Carbonell y Rivero. <em>La poes\u00eda l\u00edrica en Cuba<\/em>. Tomo 4. La Habana: Imprenta El Siglo XX. 229-47.<\/p>\n<p>(1958). Ed. Jos\u00e9 Mari\u00e1 Chac\u00f3n y Calvo. <em>Las cien mejores poes\u00edas cubanas<\/em>. Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hisp\u00e1nica, 1958. 243-48.<\/p>\n<p>(1964). Mercedes Matamoros. <em>Selecci\u00f3n de poemas<\/em>. Cienfuegos: Talleres del Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico.<\/p>\n<p>(1965). Ed. Jos\u00e9 Lezama Lima. <em>Antolog\u00eda de la poes\u00eda cubana<\/em>. Tomo III. La Habana: Direcci\u00f3n de Cultura. 531-51.<\/p>\n<p>(1969). Ed. Rafael Estenger. <em>Cien de las mejores poes\u00edas cubanas<\/em>. Miami: Mnemosyne Publishing Inc. 256-61.<\/p>\n<p>(1974). \u201cA Cienfuegos.\u201d Ed. Carlos Ripoll. <em>Naturaleza y alma de Cuba: dos siglos de poes\u00eda cubana (1760-1960)<\/em>. Madrid: Anaya. 125.<\/p>\n<p>(1985). <em>Obra Po\u00e9tica<\/em>. Miami: Ahora Printing.<\/p>\n<p>(1988). <em>Selecci\u00f3n de poemas<\/em>. Cienfuegos: Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico de Cienfuegos.<\/p>\n<p>(1991). <em>Mirtos de anta\u00f1o<\/em>. Cienfuegos: Talleres Plaza Vieja y 5 de septiembre.<\/p>\n<p>(2002). Ed. Salvador Arias. <em>Poes\u00eda cubana de la colonia: antolog\u00eda<\/em>. La Habana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2002. 158-60.<\/p>\n<p>(2006). Ed. Cira Romero. <em>Mi desposado, el viento: antolog\u00eda po\u00e9tica<\/em>. La Habana: Editorial Letras Cubanas. 59-86.<\/p>\n<p>(2008). Ed. Jabier H. Pizarroso. <em>La voz de la manigua<\/em>. Sevilla: Mono Azul Editora. 176-83.<\/p>\n<p>(2011). Ed. Milena Rodr\u00edguez Guti\u00e9rrez. <em>Otra Cuba secreta: antolog\u00eda de poetas cubanas del XIX y del XX<\/em>. Madrid: Editorial Verbum. 181-204.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Critical Works (Reference Materials, Books, Book Chapters, Journal Articles, Encyclopedias, Theses\/Dissertations, Media and Internet Sources)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arias, Salvador. <em>Poes\u00eda cubana de la colonia: antolog\u00eda<\/em>. La Habana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2002. 157-60.<\/p>\n<p>Calcagno, Francisco. <em>Diccionario biogr\u00e1fico cubano<\/em>. New York: N. Ponce de Le\u00f3n, 1878. 409-10.<\/p>\n<p>Carbonell y Rivero, Jos\u00e9 Manuel. \u201cMercedes Matamoros (1858-1906).\u201d <em>Evoluci\u00f3n de la cultura cubana: la poes\u00eda l\u00edrica en Cuba<\/em>. Tomo IV. La Habana: Imprenta El Siglo XX, 1928: 227-28.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. \u201cMercedes Matamoros (1858-1906).\u201d <em>La poes\u00eda l\u00edrica en Cuba<\/em>. Tomo 4. La Habana: Imprenta El Siglo XX, 1928. 227-28.<\/p>\n<p>Castellanos, Jes\u00fas. \u201cLas triunfadoras. Mercedes Matamoros. La mejor poetisa.\u201d <em>Azul y Rojo<\/em> 31 mayo 1903: 7.<\/p>\n<p>Chac\u00f3n y Calvo, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda. \u201cMercedes Matamoros.\u201d <em>Las cien mejores poes\u00edas cubanas<\/em>. Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hisp\u00e1nica, 1958. 248-49.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. \u201cLiteratura de Cuba.\u201d <em>Historia universal de la literatura<\/em>. Tomo XII. Santiago Prampolini. Buenos Aires: UTEHA Argentina, 1955-58. 60.<\/p>\n<p>Chem Sham, Jorge. \u201cEl auto retrato po\u00e9tico de Mercedes Matamoros: la femme fatale y lo demon\u00edaco.\u201d <em>C\u00edrculo<\/em>: Revista de cultura 26 (2007): 135-43.<\/p>\n<p>Colberg, Carmen Elisa. <em>Esquema hist\u00f3rico-biogr\u00e1fico de la literatura antillana femenina en el siglo XIX<\/em>. Diss. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ann Arbor: ProQuest\/UMI, 1989. ix, 97, 123-24, 219.<\/p>\n<p>Escaja, Tina. \u201cAutores modernistas y la (re)inscripci\u00f3n del cuerpo nacional.\u201d <em>Sexualidad y naci\u00f3n en Am\u00e9rica Latina<\/em>. Ed. Daniel Balderston. Pittsburgh, PA: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2000. 61-75.<\/p>\n<p>Est\u00e9nger, Rafael. \u201cMercedes Matamoros.\u201d <em>Cien de las mejores poes\u00edas cubanas<\/em>. Miami: Mnemosyne Publishing Inc., 1969. 34, 41.<\/p>\n<p>Feij\u00f3o, Samuel. \u201cMercedes Matamoros, Ceiba y manuscritos.\u201d <em>Azar de lecturas<\/em>. La Habana: Universidad Central de Las Villas, 1961. 80-3.<\/p>\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez Olmos, Margarite. \u201cEl erotismo revolucionario de las poetas cubanas.\u201d <em>Explicaci\u00f3n de Textos Literarios<\/em> 24.1-2 (1996): 137-48.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; y Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. <em>Literatura er\u00f3tica femenina de Am\u00e9rica Latina<\/em>.<em> Antolog\u00eda cr\u00edtica<\/em>. M\u00e9xico D.F.: Planeta, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Fowler, V\u00edctor. \u201cFin y salida del siglo XIX.\u201d <em>Mujeres latinoamericanas: Historia y cultura siglos XVI al XIX<\/em>. Tomo 2. Ed. Luisa Campuzano. La Habana: Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas, 1997. 315-22.<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda de Coronado, Domitila. \u201cMercedes Matamoros.\u201d <em>\u00c1lbum po\u00e9tico-fotogr\u00e1fico de escritoras poetisas cubanas escrito en 1868 para la se\u00f1ora Do\u00f1a Gertrudis G\u00f3mez de Avellaneda<\/em>. La Habana: Imprenta de El F\u00edgaro, 1926. 189-93.<\/p>\n<p>Gonz\u00e1lez, Ronel, Zenovio Hern\u00e1ndez and Anicia Cruz. <em>Selva interior. Estudio cr\u00edtico de la poes\u00eda en Holgu\u00edn (1862-1930)<\/em>. Holgu\u00edn: Ediciones Holgu\u00edn, 2002. 47.<\/p>\n<p>Gonz\u00e1lez Curquejo, Antonio. \u201cMercedes Matamoros.\u201d <em>Florilegio de escritoras cubanas<\/em>. Tomo 2. La Habana: Aurelio Miranda, 1913. 93-96.<\/p>\n<p>Henr\u00edquez Ure\u00f1a, Max. <em>Panorama hist\u00f3rico de la literatura cubana<\/em>. Nueva York: Las Am\u00e9ricas Publishing Company, 1963. 183, 317.<\/p>\n<p>Lezama Lima, Jos\u00e9. \u201cMercedes Matamoros.\u201d <em>Antolog\u00eda de la poes\u00eda cubana<\/em>. Tomo 3. La Habana: Consejo Nacional de Cultura, 1965. 530-31.<\/p>\n<p>Luque, Aurora. \u201cMercedes Matamoros: una lectura de Safo en La Habana de 1900.\u201d <em>Literatura Hispanoamericana del siglo XX: m\u00edmesis e iconograf\u00eda<\/em>. Ed. Guadalupe Fern\u00e1ndez Ariza. M\u00e1laga: Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad de M\u00e1laga, 2003. 131-46.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e1rquez Sterling, Manuel. Pr\u00f3l. <em>Sonetos. Mercedes Matamoros<\/em>. La Habana: Tipograf\u00eda La Australia, 1902.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. \u201cMercedes Matamoros.\u201d <em>Azul y Rojo<\/em> 2 nov. 1902: 2-3.<\/p>\n<p>Mart\u00ed, Jos\u00e9. \u201cA Mercedes Matamoros.\u201d <em>Obras completas XVII<\/em>. La Habana: Ed. Nacional de Cuba, 1966. 186.<\/p>\n<p>Mart\u00edn Morales, Alfredo. \u201cMercedes Matamoros. Ante su tumba.\u201d <em>El F\u00edgaro<\/em> 22.35 (1906): 446-47.<\/p>\n<p>Maza y Artola, Juan Jos\u00e9. \u201cSafo y una poetisa cubana.\u201d <em>Asf\u00f3delos<\/em>. La Habana: Hermes, 1930. 249-76.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMercedes Matamoros del Valle.\u201d <em>Diccionario de la Literatura Cubana<\/em>. Tomo 2. La Habana: Instituto de Literatura y Ling\u00fc\u00edstica de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, 1980. 583-85.<\/p>\n<p>Monte, Antonio del. \u201cEvocando a una gran poetisa.\u201d <em>El F\u00edgaro<\/em> 30 oct. 1921: 538-39.<\/p>\n<p>Montero, Susana. \u201c3.7.1 Los poetas de transici\u00f3n del per\u00edodo.\u201d <em>Historia de la Literatura cubana. La colonia: desde los or\u00edgenes hasta 1898<\/em>. Tomo I. Ed. Jos\u00e9 Antonio Portuondo Valdor. La Habana: Letras Cubanas, 2002. 508-10.<\/p>\n<p>Morilla Palacios, Ana. \u201cMercedes Matamoros y Safo de Lesbos.\u201d <em>Foro de Educaci\u00f3n<\/em> 9 (2007): 279-96.<\/p>\n<p>Mu\u00f1oz-Bustamante, Mario. \u201cLa alondra ciega.\u201d <em>Ideas y colores<\/em>. Mario Mu\u00f1oz-Bustamante. La Habana: Imprenta El Avistador Comercial, 1907. 5-7.<\/p>\n<p>Nieto y Cortadellas, Rafael. \u201cDocumentos sacramentales de algunos cubanos ilustres. 83. Mar\u00eda de las Mercedes Matamoros y del Valle.\u201d <em>Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional<\/em> 6.3 (1955): 167-68.<\/p>\n<p>Pichardo, Hortensia. <em>Mercedes Matamoros. Su vida y su obra<\/em>. La Habana: C\u00e1rdenas, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. \u201cMercedes Matamoros. La poetisa del amor y del dolor.\u201d <em>Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional<\/em> 7.3 (1956): 105-19.<\/p>\n<p>Pizarroso, Jabier H., ed. <em>La voz de la manigua<\/em>. Ed. Jabier H. Pizarroso. Sevilla: Mono Azul Editora, 2008. 174-75.<\/p>\n<p>Portuondo Valdor, Jos\u00e9 Antonio, ed. <em>Historia de la literatura cubana. La colonia: desde los or\u00edgenes hasta 1898<\/em>. Tomo 1. La Habana: Letras Cubanas, 2002. 452, 454, 508-10, 520, 535, 542, 543.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;, ed. <em>Historia de la literatura cubana. La literatura cubana entre 1899 y 1985. La rep\u00fablica<\/em>. Tomo 2. La Habana: Letras Cubanas, 2003. 30, 31.<\/p>\n<p>Remos, Juan J. <em>Historia de la literatura cubana<\/em>. Tomo II. Habana: C\u00e1rdenas y Compa\u00f1\u00eda, 1945. 490.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. <em>Proceso hist\u00f3rico de las letras cubanas<\/em>. Madrid: Ediciones Guadarrama, 1958. 184.<\/p>\n<p>Ripoll, Carlos, ed. <em>Naturaleza y alma de Cuba: dos siglos de poes\u00eda cubana (1760-1960)<\/em>. Madrid: Anaya, 1974. 125.<\/p>\n<p>Rodr\u00edguez Guti\u00e9rrez, Milena. \u201cContra Col\u00f3n: la distop\u00eda en la poes\u00eda cubana del XIX y del XX.\u201d <em>El viaje en la literatura hispanoamericana: el esp\u00edritu colombino<\/em>. Eds. Sonia Mattal\u00eda, Pilar Celma and Pilar Alonso. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2008. 329-40.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. <em>Entre el cacharro dom\u00e9stico y la V\u00eda L\u00e1ctea: poetas cubanas e hispanoamericanas<\/em>. Sevilla: Editorial Renacimiento, 2012. 94-110, 113-27.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. \u201cEntre el patriotismo y la marginalidad: poetas cubanas en torno al proceso independentista de finales del XIX. Mercedes Matamoros y Aurelia Castillo de Gonz\u00e1lez.\u201d Am\u00e9rica. <em>Cahiers du CRICCAL <\/em>41 (2011).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;, ed. <em>Otra Cuba secreta: antolog\u00eda de poetas cubanas del XIX y del XX<\/em>. Madrid: Editorial Verbum, 2011. 177-79.<\/p>\n<p>Romero, Cira. \u201cMercedes Matamoros.\u201d <em>Mi desposado, el viento: antolog\u00eda po\u00e9tica<\/em>. La Habana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2006. 57-69.<\/p>\n<p>Romeu, Raquel. \u201cII. Mercedes Matamoros. El discurso po\u00e9tico de Mercedes Matamoros.\u201d <em>Voces de mujeres en la literatura cubana<\/em>. Madrid: Editorial Verbum, 2000. 108-9.<\/p>\n<p>Salazar, Salvador. \u201cMercedes Matamoros, su vida y su arte.\u201d <em>Anales de la Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras<\/em> (enero-marzo 1929): 110-38.<\/p>\n<p>Teipe, William A. <em>Deconstructing Modernismo Constructing Modernity in the Work of the Cuban Poets Juana Borrero, Mercedes Matamoros, Nieves Xenes, and Dulce Mar\u00eda Borrero de Luj\u00e1n<\/em>. Diss. University of California, Irvine. Ann Arbor: ProQuest\/UMI, 2007. AAT 3273866.<\/p>\n<p>Vallejo, Catharina. \u201cFrom Muse to Poet: Paratextual Practices of Women Poets in Cuba at the End of the Nineteenth Century.\u201d <em>Decimon\u00f3nica<\/em> 4.1 (2007): 80-93.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;. <em>The Women in the Men\u2019s Club: Women Modernista Poets in Cuba (1880-1910)<\/em>. New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2012. X, XIII, 3, 4, 60-3, 65-66, 71-82, 118, 120-21, 127-32, 134, 143.<\/p>\n<p>Varona, Alberto J. <em>La poes\u00eda de Mercedes Matamoros<\/em>. Miami: San L\u00e1zaro Graphics, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Vitier, Cintio. \u201cMercedes Matamoros.\u201d <em>Cincuenta a\u00f1os de poes\u00eda cubana (1902-1952)<\/em>. 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