Abstract

VICENS, María. Clorinda Matto de Turner en Buenos Aires: redes culturales y estrategias de (auto) legitimación de una escritora en el exilio. Mora (B. Aires) [online]. 2013, vol.19, n.2, pp.00-00. ISSN 1853-001X.

One of the most interesting aspects arising from the literary biography of the Peruvian novelist Clorinda Matto de Turner are the strategies of (self) legitmation that she implemented to consolidate her career in exile and to promote the figure of the Latin American female writers in the Buenos Aires society of late nineteenth century. Her identification with the argentine narrator Juana Manuela Gorriti, as well as her links with the Ateneo de Buenos Aires and the Sociedad Proteccionista Intelectual allowed her to contact the most important members of that literary field and participate in discussions about the social role of women which were developing at this time, turning her magazine Búcaro Americano (1896-1908) into an important platform focused on defending a literature of continental dimensions and the professionalization of women interested in pursuing writing as a career.

Keywords : Women writers; Cultural Networks; Latin America; Ateneo de Buenos Aires; Legitimation.