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The Creole waltz is a musical genre practiced in Peru since the end of the 19th century. It has an important function in Valses y otra falsas confesiones (1972) by the Peruvian poet Blanca Varela, a member of the "Generation of '50". Some representative poems of Valses y otras falsas confesiones [Waltzes and other false confessions] are analyzed through the concept of demystification (proposed by Umberto Eco) and the theoretical framework of Stefano Arduini's General Textual Rhetoric. Our central purpose is to state that, for Varela, there are two types of waltz: the criollo and the one that defends marginal groups. Varela demystifies the Creole waltz and, at the same time, formulates another type of waltz that takes the side of peripheral groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an analysis of Nights of Adrenaline by the Peruvian poet Carmen Ollé based on the notion of performatic body and affect. The poetic subject questions the imposed roles to women by androcentric society and manifests the migratory shift from the periphery (Lima) to Europe (the center). Likewise, Ollé proposes body liberation based on Anti-Psychiatry and Radical Psychiatry theorists as an implicit criticism to Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and religion. For this reason, she postulates the emergence of a queer desire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author analyzes the presence of the migrant subject in The Book of God and the Hungarians of Antonio Cisneros. There are three characteristics of the migrant subject in Cisneros' work: the impossibility of naming with precision, fragmented memory and fuzzy boundaries of geographical areas. The theoretical framework of Antonio Cornejo Polar, Peruvian literary critic is used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Magda Portal (1900-1989) is one of the most representative Peruvian writers of the 20th century. He was a member of the Peruvian Aprista Party and defended the rights of women in a forgotten text: The Aprismo and the Woman (1933), where he uses the argument by exemplification to highlight the work of important women such as Clorinda Matto de Turner, Flora Tristán and María Alvarado Rivera He also practiced avant-garde poetry in A Hope and the Sea (1927) where he uses procedures such as metaphor, suppression of punctuation marks, blank page space and the use of various types of letters in order to question the androcentric order and contrast the masculine monolithic discourse against the diversity and richness of feminine discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Baladas peruanas by Manuel González Prada is an antecedent of Canto general (1950) because it emphasizes the American cosmogony, the defense of the indigenous and the polyacroasis in the field of Hispanic American poetry. González Prada and Neruda are two intellectuals committed to an anticolonialist perspective and interested in the history of Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]