Links and tensions between El Perú Ilustrado and two stories by Clorinda Matto de Turner

Abstract

The essay aims to propose a reading of the short narrative by Clorinda Matto de Turner, the one that was published in the Lima press in the last decades of the 19th century, specifically in the magazine El Perú Ilustrado (1887-1892). From the analysis of the stories “Amor de redondel” and “El corsé”, published in said magazine, links and tensions are detected between the imagination and the fictional process of the author and some of the components and contents of El Perú Ilustrado, in the logic of the modernizing project that its pages displayed. The work reveals the importance of the relationship between press and literature and allows an interpretation of the entire short narrative of the Cuzco writer.