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Peruvian Traditions

Peruvian Traditions

Palma, Ricardo
Conway, Christopher
Lane, Helen

Paperback

Series: Library of Latin America

Mythology & FolkloreSouth American History

ISBN10: 0195159098
ISBN13: 9780195159097
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 6 2004
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As head of the National Library in Lima, Palma had access to a rich source of historical books and manuscripts. His historical miscellanies, which he called traditions, are witty anecdotes about conquerors, viceroys, corrupt and lovelorn friars, tragic loves and notorious characters. Humor, irony and word play characterize his collection of over five hundred traditions written between 1872 and 1906, whether describing violent deeds or amorous misadventures. Unlike many of his contemporaries in the second half of the nineteenth century, Palma did not write transparent didactic fictions and defend elite cultural forms. Rather, he reveled in ironic approaches to written sources, political authorities and church institutions as well as popular speech and knowledge. Both fiction and history, Palma's delightful Peruvian Traditions represents a hybrid literary form that constructs historical memory distinct from the dominant literary trends of the time.

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