Book contents
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Latin American Literature in Transition
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Aesthetics of Disorder
- Part II Affective Communities
- Chapter 8 Imagining Popular Sovereignty
- Chapter 9 The Arithmetic of Sentiment
- Chapter 10 Costumbrismo As Political Ethnography
- Chapter 11 The Disruptive Andean
- Chapter 12 The Material and Cultural Politics of Publishing
- Chapter 13 Hygiene, Good Manners, and the Public Body
- Chapter 14 Intimacy, Identity, and the Nation
- Part III Intersectional Subjectivities
- Part IV Transoceanic Consciousness
- Index
- References
Chapter 11 - The Disruptive Andean
from Part II - Affective Communities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2023
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Latin American Literature in Transition
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Aesthetics of Disorder
- Part II Affective Communities
- Chapter 8 Imagining Popular Sovereignty
- Chapter 9 The Arithmetic of Sentiment
- Chapter 10 Costumbrismo As Political Ethnography
- Chapter 11 The Disruptive Andean
- Chapter 12 The Material and Cultural Politics of Publishing
- Chapter 13 Hygiene, Good Manners, and the Public Body
- Chapter 14 Intimacy, Identity, and the Nation
- Part III Intersectional Subjectivities
- Part IV Transoceanic Consciousness
- Index
- References
Summary
In her letters to Ricardo Palma (1833–1919), Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852–1909) uses terms of address that confound the hierarchies implicit in the established view of Palma as an older patron whose influence she outgrows. They register instead a play of subservience, solidarity, and complicity that questions the generational paradigm. Palma is “mi querido maestro y amigo” [my dear teacher and friend]; Matto de Turner is an “Afma.
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- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870 , pp. 174 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022