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Torn from the Nest

By: Clorinda Matto de Turner

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Clorinda Matto de Turner was the first Peruvian novelist to command an international reputation and the first to dramatize the exploitation of indigenous Latin American people. She believed the task of the novel was to be the photograph that captures the vices and virtues of a people, censuring the former with the appropriate moral lesson and paying its homage of admiration to the latter. In this tragic tale, Clorinda Matto de Turner explores the relationship between the landed gentry and the indigenous peoples of the Andean mountain communities. While unfolding as a love story rife with secrets and dashed hopes, Torn from the Nest in fact reveals a deep and destructive class disparity, and criticizes the Catholic clergy for blatant corruption. When Lucia and Don Fernando Marin settle in the small hamlet of Killac, the young couple become advocates for the local Indians who are being exploited and oppressed by their priest and governor and by the gentry allied with these two. Considered meddling outsiders, the couple meet violent resistance from the village leaders, who orchestrate an assault on their house and pursue devious and unfair schemes to keep the Indians subjugated. As a romance blossoms between the a member of the gentry and the peasant girl that Lucia and Don Fernando have adopted, a dreadful secret prevents their marriage and brings to a climax the novel's exposure of degradation: they share the same father--a parish priest. Torn from the Nest was first published in Peru in 1889 amidst much enthusiasm and outrage. This fresh translation--the first since 1904--preserves one of Peru's most distinctive and compelling voices.

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Oxford University Press

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0199770387

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Hima-Sumac

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Hima-Sumac

By: Clorinda Matto de Turner

Hima-Sumac es la obra de teatro que Matto escribió basada en el cuento "El tesoro de los incas" de su amiga, la escritora argentina Juana Gorriti. La pieza es, en efecto, una apuesta por la valorización del legado incaico en el Perú, contada a partir de un triángulo amoroso y de acontecimientos que lo rebasan. En un plano técnico la obra mezcla influencias de los dramas rituales en quechua y de la ópera italiana. Fue estrenada en medio de la convulsión posterior a la Guerra del Pacífico, por lo que en ese momento hizo resonar una fibra patriótica. Pero quizás el mayor logro sea la construcción de una heroína indígena, compañera mítica del legendario Túpac-Amaru en la resistencia a los españoles y protagonista principal. Clorinda Matto de Turner (Cusco, 1852 - Buenos Aires, 1909) fue una escritora y periodista peruana, pionera de la novela indigenista en el continente. Dedicó numerosos artículos a promover la emancipación de las mujeres y reformas contra distintos tipos de explotación. Fundó y co-fundó varias publicaciones culturales, así como el proyecto editorial La Equitativa. Entre sus libros se destacan las novelas Aves sin nido (1889), Índole (1891) y Herencia (1895), a la par de contundentes ensayos, recopilaciones de notas periodísticas, conferencias, apuntes de viajes y una obra de teatro.

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