ABSTRACT
Elena Poniatowska, author of novels, reportorial essays, and extended flights of fantasy, has yet to receive the attention that is her due in the United States, despite the current wave of interest in Latin American author's. Poniatowska on the victims of this government repression: It takes a special sort of talent to move from the world of brute fact to the imagined ontologies that examines throughout this work, but it is clear that Poniatowska has this talent. Poniatowska shines as an author, since it is their take on things that receives her fullest attention. Using Dear Diego as the text, with its imaginations regarding the affair between Angelina Beloff and Diego Rivera, Raysa Gomez-Quintero and Mireya Prez Bustillo argue that the extraordinary streak in Poniatowskas work is her extrapolation of the woman's point of view. The world of the Mexican woman is a natural world, even within the confines of a slum in Mexico City.
