La tierra natal

Juana Manuela Gorriti was one of the major literary figures in nineteenth century Latin America but her work remains almost unknown outside a narrow academic circle. She was born into a wealthy family in Salta in the North of Argentina in 1818. Her father was a soldier who fought in Argentina's War of Independence from Spain (1810-1818). As a Unitarian politician he later took up arms against Rosas and other Federalist leaders, leading to the family's exile in Bolivia in 1831.

In 1833, at th...