Torn from the Nest
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 rev…
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Weitere Autoren: Cornejo Polar, Antonio (Hrsg.) / Polt, John (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-993901-5
- EAN: 9780199939015
- Produktnummer: 13991901
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'940 KB
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Clorinda Matto de Turner was a major literary figure in 19th century Peru. She was a pioneer of indigenist literature, and was a crucial Peruvian writer in the shift from Romanticism to Naturalism. The late Antonio Cornejo-Polar was Professor of Spanish at The University of California, Berkeley. John Polt, Professor Emeritus of Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley, has translated several Spanish and Spanish American authors.
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