Libros de Clorinda Matto De Turner (2 libros)

Herencia (1895) set in the city of Lima during the last decades of the XIX Century, is the third deliberately controversial novel written by Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru, 1852-1909), well known by then for her novels, Aves sin nido (1889) and Indole (1891), which take place in rural Andean Peru. An experienced writer of essays, historical fiction and biographies, Clorinda Matto had a sociologist's sharply observant eye, but by 1895, when she published Herencia, Clorinda Matto's days as an aggressive journalist in Lima were numbered. Only a few months later, she fled into exile in Argentina...

Clorinda Matto de Turner (Cuzco 1854 Buenos Aires 1909) fue pionera en la literatura latinoamericana de mujeres, al tiempo que precursora de los movimientos reformistas y de lucha por los derechos de las mujeres en América Latina. Aves sin nido(1889) es considerada la primera novela indigenista, pues, por primera vez en las letras hispánicas del continente americano, despliega una intensa protesta social por la situación de injusta explotación y denuncia de forma especial la mayor opresión a la que se ven forzadas las mujeres dentro del colectivo indígena