The porteño fantasy: Peruvian women writers in the Buenos Aires of fin de siècle

• Autor: Vicens, María
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2018
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/19482
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/revistaira/article/view/19482
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Women writers; 19th century; cultural networks; press; Latin American Literature; escritoras; siglo XIX; redes culturales; prensa; literatura latinoamericana

Between 1890 and 1910 several Peruvian womenwriters saw in Buenos Aires a chance to reinvent their literary careers, driven by the early interest that the porteño press had shown for their texts. This encouraging panorama, however,would soon contrast with reality: the experiences that Clorinda Matto de Turner, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera and Carolina Freyre de Jaimes starred in the Argentine capital expose especially the obstacles they encountered in a city in the midst of modernization, as well as the strategies they deployed to readapt their author profiles and participate therefore in the local cultural field.