A political satire against the Peru-Bolivian Confederation: La Mulata (1838) edited by Buenaventura Seoane

• Autor: Peralta Ruiz, Víctor
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2017
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/15347
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/revistaira/article/view/15347
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Afrodescendant people; press; Peru-Bolivian Confederation; XIX century; Buenaventura Seoane; Población afrodescendiente; nacionalismo; periódicos peruanos; prensa; Confederación Perú-Boliviana; Siglo XIX; Perú

This article analyses the contents of an unknown conservative newspaper entitled La Mulata that was against the Peru-Bolivian Confederation in October 1828. It was edited in Lima by the lawyer and politician Buenaventura Seoane. Thecontents of the five numbers of La Mulata show that it was a newspaper for propaganda and political satire. Particularly, it focused on afro-descendant people, especially former slaves or libertos, to demonstrate how the lower sectors of the population can amend the loss of political freedom by adopting a patriotic attitude. La Mulata provides new insights to understand the political rhetoric of the Peruvian creolle nationalism in the first half of the nineteenth century.