Social Realism as a Driver of Literary Transformation and Denunciation in Aves sin Nido by Clorinda Matto de Turner

Abstract

This work is given through the analysis of the work Birds without a nest by the author Clorinda Matto de Turner, in order to show the manifestations of social realism, characteristics of literary transformation and denunciation within the structure of the characters and finally, the relationship that is formed when linking these axes. The methodology used is qualitative, with a documentary design and descriptive scope, in addition to this, the theoretical foundation of intersectional feminism of bell hooks and the theory of the model reader of Umberto Eco were used. For the results, it was glimpsed that the nineteenth-century work makes realistic descriptions of the environment, clothing, physical description and economic description; in the same way, Matto de Turner uses writing as a method of innovation with the incorporation of Quechua speech, representation of the institutions of power that committed injustices and the participation through the rhetorical interrogation of the narrator. With all this, it is concluded that social realism, literary transformation and denunciation are integrated as the focal point of a transformative narrative operation, in which the faithful description of what was lived at the time is a symbol of resistance in the literary, political and cultural spheres.