151. LAS ÚLTIMAS DE LA FILA: REPRESENTACIÓN D E LAS RABONAS EN LA LITERATURA Y CULTURA VISUAL DECIMONÓNICA.
- Author
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Miseres, Vanesa
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INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas , *TRAVEL literature , *COSTUMBRISMO , *PATRIOTISM , *PERUVIAN national character , *NINETEENTH century , *INDIGENOUS peoples of South America -- History , *HISTORY , *MILITARY history , *PICTURES ,SOUTH American indigenous women ,PERUVIAN history ,INDIGENOUS influences in Peruvian civilization - Abstract
My article focuses on the literary and visual representation of the rabonas, women of indigenous origin who accompanied soldiers in the campaigns, within 19th century travel literature and costumbrismo. Both corpora, which played a key role in the symbolic construction of the nation, usually offered an ammalized or folklorized image of the rabonas, accentuating the poverty and marginalization of these women within the Peruvian social and military body. Thus, considering women a mirror of the nation, my study asserts that the rabonas portrayed Peru in a way that contradicted the modernized image that the nation was trying to address. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2014