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El Pozo del Yocci
Juana Manuela Gorriti
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R370
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Cocina Ecléctica
Juana Manuela Gorriti
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R656
Discovery Miles 6 560
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Our Native Land (Paperback)
Juana Manuela Gorriti; Translated by Kathryn Phillips-Miles; Introduction by Simon Deefholts
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The actions in El pozo del Yocci take place during the permanent
state of unrest that harrased the argentine northern provinces,
sparked by the quarrels between federalists and unitarians during
Juan Manuel de Rosas' rule over the Argentine Confederation. This
non declared civil war became a temptation to the expansion desires
of the bolivian ruler, mariscal Santa Cruz who, besides giving
shelter to the anti-rosists, encouraged them by financing their
raids against the province governors who sided with the Burenos
Aires government. The turmoil of political hatred among caudillos
was also stirred by personal reasons, many stemming from episodes
happened only 25 years before when the division between royalists
spaniards and independist criollos painfully set brother against
brother, tore appart families and truncated many love stories.
There is no better story-teller than Juana Manuela Gorriti,
daughter of a family forced to exile losing many lives and fortune
due to their confrontation with caudillo Facundo Quiroga, to depict
in a most vivid way the chain of circumstances which, as in a greek
tragedy, events from the past define the present and future of the
main characters. This short novel is not just a jewel of the XIX
Century South American literature, but a vivid fresco where
historical characters become human and alive through the pen of a
most gifted woman writer, who happened to know them personal and
intimately.
La tierra natal is a journey into the past, and also a farewell.
Since 1831, when forced to follow her father into exile in Bolivia,
Juana Manuela Gorriti had not returned to Salta; though there are
some opinions about the stealth trip disguised in man's clothes,
depicted in her short story "Gubi Amaya," being somewhat
autobiographic. A trip from Buenos Aires up to the country's North
in 1878 becomes frustrated at Tucuman. And it is just in 1886,
fifty five years after her departure, that she can return to Salta.
Just twenty days, to walk her memories, talk with with the
descendants of her own people, and be welcomed as a notable
personality, a living legend, as she shyly and painfully
acknowledges . The book contains a complex travel narrative: a
return to the birthplace and also to the past; but above all, to
the interior of memories, to the comparison of the real to-day with
what the memory, filled with the want of permanence, has treasured.
A wanting that shows itself in the superimposing of faces and
characters; a grandfather in the poise of his grandson, a historic
reference in a house faade, or a ghost from the past that returns
as someone innominated passing by the street. The wandering is not
motivated by nostalgia of what cannot be brought back, but the
search of understanding what exists now, where what was then is no
longer there. The structure is that of the best travel books: the
trip becomes the thread, but the interpolation of remembrances is
responsible for the weave. A useful background fact is that,
according to the 1895 census, the province of Salta had 118.015
inhabitants, and the capital city that awaited Juana Manuela
Gorriti only 20.361; thus it was small, deeply religious and the
rural aspects still permeated the everyday life.
In 1875, Juana Manuela Gorriti hurried to finish her new novel,
Peregrinaciones de una alma triste, in order to include it in the
two-volume collection, Panoramas de la vida, published in 1876,
dedicated to the women of Buenos Aires. Peregrinaciones is both the
story of a young woman's dramatic liberation and self-discovery,
and a critical travelogue of conditions in southern South America.
The narrator, Laura, tells a close woman friend about her escape
from her home in Lima, where she was dying of tuberculosis, and the
series of adventures that stimulated her into health, independence
and energetic engagement with the welfare of others. As she
travels, she witnesses the horrors and glories of 19th century
society, from bandit attacks, civil wars, and indigeneous
rebellions to the cruelties of slavery. She journeys through varied
terrain, from mountain peaks to the jungle, where she dresses in
male clothing for self-protection. At this time when national
identity was being defined, Laura assesses the populations and
problems of the Southern Cone nations, with the help of the friends
she makes during the course of her travels. Juana Manuela Gorriti
(1818-1892) is one of the best known and most eloquent 19th century
writers of fiction. Born in Argentina, she went to Bolivia with her
family after her Unitarian father was defeated by Juan Facundo
Quiroga in 1831. She settled in Peru, began to publish stories and
novels, and established a literary salon attended by Lima's leading
intellectuals. Ever restless, like the protagonist of
Peregrinaciones, she traveled frequently and wrote about it, very
aware of changing conditions as Peru, Chile and Argentina
modernized. She died in Buenos Aires, where many of her books were
first published, including Sueos y realidades, Panoramas de la
vida, El mundo de los recuerdos, and many others. This edition of
Peregrinaciones has been updated with plentiful footnotes and a
critical introduction by Mary G. Berg, author of many studies of
Latin American women writers and their times. This novel would fit
well into courses on Latin American narrative, women writers,
Southern Cone history, gender and cultural studies, and
nation-building in the nineteenth century.
Juana Mauela Gorriti (1818-1892) is one of the outstanding women writers of nineteenth-century Argentina. She wrote in various genres from fiction and travelogues to cookbooks and essays and she edited a number of literary reviews in Lima and Buenos Aires, where she put women's issues before the public.
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