Clorinda Matto De Turner: 5 books

Por ser la primera persona que expuso el maltrato de los indígenas del Perú, Clorinda Matto de Turner fue censurada por la Iglesia Católica, se quemó en efigie, y forzosamente emigró a la Argentina. Logró esa notoriedad a través de esta novela, que cuenta la historia de un joven matrimonio de...

La última novela de la siempre controversial Clorinda Matto de Turner toma lugar en la Lima del siglo XIX. Retrata a seis mujeres que tienen que tomar sus decisiones limitadas a base de las apariencias bonitas que a lo mejor ocultan fealdad. En su tiempo fue considerada pornográfica por describir...

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...

"I love the native race with a tender love, and so I have observed its customs closely, enchanted by their simplicity, and, as well, the abjection into which this race is plunged by small-town despots, who, while their names may change, never fail to live up to the epithet of tyrants. They are no other...

Because she was the first to expose the appalling treatment of the natives of Peru, Clorinda Matto de Turner was excommunicated from the Catholic church, burned in effigy, and forced to emigrate to Argentina. She gained her notoriety with this book, which has been compared to Uncle Toms Cabin for its...