Review of Clorinda Matto de Turner, "Aves sin nido", ed. Dora Sales Salvador
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ABSTRACT:
Book reviewed:
Clorinda Matto de Turner, AVES SIN NIDO
(novel of 1889; critical edition by Dora Sales Salvador, 2006)
Details:
Castellón de la Plana (Comunidad Valenciana, Spain): Universidad Jaume I / Ellago Ediciones (Colección Sendes), 2006, ISBN 84-8021-557-7, 300 pp.
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There is also a Spanish version of this reciew (see separate getcited entry).
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In the literary landscape of Peru of the second half of the nineteenth century, increasing retrospective importance is today being given to the figure of Clorinda Matto de Turner (Cuzco, 1852 - Buenos Aires, 1909), a writer who stands out thanks to her work for women's education, for appearing on the papal Index of Banned Books despite being a practising and believing Christian, and for her novel Aves sin nido (Birds Without a Nest ), first published in 1889, which marked a key moment in the history of socially committed writing in Latin America, and which now appears, for the first time on the Spanish market, in a critical edition , with a full introduction (including a chronology of the author) plus an extensive bibliography. This valuable contribution to Latin American studies is the work of Dora Sales Salvador, of the Universidad Jaume I de Castellón (Spain).
Clorinda Matto de Turner was born in Cuzco, in 1852, under the name of Grimanesa Martina Matto Usandivares. The adopted name Clorinda under which she wrote her works was bestowed on her by her husband, José Turner, a businessman of British origin whom she married in 1871. Her father hailed from the upper-middle class and owned a property in the locality of Paullo Chico (near Coya in the departamento (province) of Cuzco), where his young daughter stayed on a number of occasions. These stays enabled her, in the words of Dora Sales, to 'observar de cerca la vida y costumbres de los indígenas quechuas' ('observe the life and customs of the Quechua natives from close up' - Introduction, 28). She may thus be compared with later writers like Castellanos and Arguedas, who also came from the white/Spanish-speaking/middle-class strata but had an intimate knowledge of the lives of the subaltern natives and were convinced defenders of their rights and dignity. At the same time, Matto was from early on an active promoter of the cause of Peruvian and Latin American women, whatever their ethnic origin.
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