Clorinda Matto de Turner in Buenos Aires: an unpublished letter to Robert Lehmann-Nitsche (02/01st /1906)

  • Ena Mercedes Matienzo León Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Keywords: Clorinda Matto de Turner, correspondence, novel, Birds without a nest

Abstract

The following paper is intended to reveal a letter that Peruvian writer Clorinda Matto de Turner addressed
from Buenos Aires, in 1906, to physical anthropologist and ethnologist Robert Lehmann-Nitsche. The letter
that is written by hand, and it is visible the Cusco poligrapher’s signature, is preserved in the library of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, in the section of legacies, autographs, drawings and other photographic
documentations. This brief study is a first research on a wide recorded correspondence that possibly Matto de Turner addressed to some academic, political and religious personalities. The publication of this first letter offers information on the spaces in which the Peruvian writer move at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Author Biography

Ena Mercedes Matienzo León, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Doctora en Lengua y Literatura Románicas por la Universidad de Potsdam, Alemania, con la disertación titulada Ficcionalizar el referente. Violencia, saber, ficción y utopía en El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno de Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala. Su área de estudio se centra en la Estética de la recepción literaria, Teoría de la violencia desde el enfoque comunicativo y Ficcionalidad en los textos coloniales. En la actualidad realiza el estudio del epistolario de Clorinda Matto de Turner.

Published
2016-12-31
How to Cite
Matienzo León, E. M. (2016). Clorinda Matto de Turner in Buenos Aires: an unpublished letter to Robert Lehmann-Nitsche (02/01st /1906). Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 61(61), 183. https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.201601.009
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