Flora Tristán and María Nieves Y Bustamante, Two Moments In 19th Century Peruvian Literature

Abstract

Peruvian literature of the 19th century has important representatives that have been studied by critics. Its contextual conditions are highlighted, especially with two transcendental historical events: the independence of Peru and the War of the Pacific. Flora Tristán published Peregrinaciones de una paria at a time when independence was being consolidated in Peru. Later, María Nieves y Bustamante published Jorge o el hijo del pueblo after the war with Chile. Both writers constitute two creative representations of historical moments of Peruvian society. The first based on a hybrid text: a mix of personal diary, travel chronicle and adventure novel; and the second, as a historical and romantic novel from the late 19th century in Peru. The objective of this essay is to explore the historical representation in the literature carried out by these two writers.