Memorias de Mamá Blanca

Memorias de Mamá Blanca (Mama Blanca's Memoirs), published in 1929, was a nostalgia-filled fictionalized memoir of Venezuelan author Teresa de la Parra's childhood. The spirit of the four sisters living on the hacienda Tazón is reflected in the six sisters living on the hacienda Piedra Azul. The moral "correctness" of Souvenirs of Mama Blanca received favorable attention from those who had criticized Iphigenia. In her letters, de la Parra wrote that there was no Iphigenia scent in Souvenirs of Mama Blanca, which had no protest speech, revolutionary ideas or social criticism.

De la Parra became a sought-after lecturer. Her more important speeches took place in Havana and Bogotá; this last one was very meaningful about her personal ideas of women's roles in American society from colonial times to the 20th century.

• Nelson Osorio T. “Para Una Lectura Critica de Las Memorias de Mama Blanca.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, vol. 17, no. 33, 1991, pp. 307–13, https://doi.org/10.2307/4530545. Accessed 20 Apr. 2022.
• Schade, George D. “Las Memorias de Mamá Blanca: A Literary Tour de Force.” Hispania, vol. 39, no. 2, 1956, pp. 157–60, https://doi.org/10.2307/334859. Accessed 20 Apr. 2022.

• Full text of Memorias de Mamá Blanca (in Spanish) at Google Books