Recuerdan en Nueva York a la escritora Gabriela Brimmer

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Recuerdan en Nueva York a la escritora Gabriela Brimmer

Publicado por Julián Pérez Porto

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Su nombre tal vez no sea demasiado conocido a nivel mundial, pero sería bueno que todos los seres humanos sepan que, durante varias décadas, existió en la Tierra una persona que fue capaz de superarse a sí misma y progresar pese a las dificultades: Gabriela Brimmer
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Esta mujer de origen mexicano, pese a haber nacido con parálisis cerebral, desafió al mundo entero al demostrar que, valiéndose sólo de un dedo de su pie izquierdo, un tablero alfabético y una máquina de escribir eléctrica, podía comunicarse, estudiar y hasta triunfar tanto dentro como fuera de su país.
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Gracias a su esfuerzo y el afán por disfrutar la vida, Gabriela consiguió instruirse y completar la carrera de Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Pronto, este logro la transformó en una figura clave del movimiento de los derechos de los discapacitados porque, como resulta evidente, Brimmer fue, es y será un gran ejemplo de lucha.

Por lo impactante de su historia personal y el valor de su trabajo como escritora, informan desde “El Financiero”, durante la jornada de ayer la Sociedad de las Américas decidió rendirle en Nueva York un homenaje. En ese marco tuvo lugar la proyección de algunas escenas de “Gaby: una verdadera historia” y la lectura y análisis de “Gaby Brimmer: una autobiografía a tres voces”, un material elaborado entre la homenajeada y Elena Poniatowska que fue traducido al inglés por Trudy Balch.
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En ese extraordinario libro publicado por la Universidad de Prensa de Brandeis y la Universidad de Prensa de Nueva Inglaterra, las vivencias de Brimmer, quien perdió la vida como consecuencia de un paro cardiorrespiratorio el 3 de enero de 2000, surgen en forma de diálogo y tienen como figuras centrales a Sari, la madre de la autora, y a la niñera Florencia Morales.
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Links relacionados:
http://www.unafuente.com/08-04-2010/rinden-homenaje-en-nueva-york-a-la-escritora-mexicana-gaby-brimmer/
http://pandephoto.blogspot.com/2008/06/gabriela-brimmer.html

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Gaby Brimmer: An Autobiography in Three Voices - Resultado da pesquisa de livros do Google

Gaby Brimmer, Elena Poniatowska - 2009 - Biography & Autobiography - 200 páginas
With the text structured by renowned writer Elena Poniatowska to alternate Gaby's voice with those of her mother and Florencia, this volume is both the memoir ...

Gabriela Brimmer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Gabriela "Gaby" Brimmer (September 12, 1947 - January 2, 2000), a writer and activist for persons with disabilities, was born in Mexico as a daughter of Austrian Jewish immigrants. Gaby was born with cerebral palsy and since childhood learned to act in a world that has difficulty accepting diversity. Brimmer's nurse, Florencia Morales, was largely responsible for teaching her to communicate.

Education and early life

In 1955, she was enrolled into a rehabilitation center's elementary school where a teacher recognized her talent with words and recommended that she become a writer. In 1967, Brimmer entered a regular school. Her Language Arts teacher was a poet who also persuaded her to write. That very same year she started to write poems. The first time her mother read one of her poems she was deeply moved, cried and asked her to keep them all so that a book could be published. Brimmer could only type on the typewriter with a toe from her left foot, the only part of her body she could control. In 1971, she was accepted into the Social and Political Sciences department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico as a Sociology Major, but did not graduate.

Foundation Gabriela Brimmer

Gaby founded an organization of people with disabilities, known as ADEPAM, and was an active participant in numerous other organizations. Brimmer labored greatly for the full participation of people with disabilities and at the same time managed to dedicate time to writing poetry. Brimmer was regarded as one who enjoyed a moving sensitivity and a strength that stemmed from the depths of her soul. Observers of her life commented that she did not think of herself as an "outstanding personality," even when people could not hide their astonishment in seeing her do the things she did. Simply, she used to say, "life makes me to do it." Her message to people with disabilities was to rethink their ways of living by forgetting the limits imposed by others.

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Brimmer's life was chronicled in the film Gaby: A True Story.

See also

• Film: 'Gaby,' Story of Determination, New York Times, October 30, 1987

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Brimmer"

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Categories: Disability rights activists | Mexican poets | 1947 births | 2000 deaths | Mexican women writers | People with cerebral palsy
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