A Pariah's Pilgrimage

Flora Tristan (Paris, 1803 - Bordeaux, 1844), feminist writer of French and Peruvian descent, published in 1838 in Paris Peregrinations d'une paria, a chronicle on her trip to America and her stay in Peru between 1833 and 1834, sharply describing post-colonial Peruvian society and the Peruvian ideals to consolidate a Nation. In addition, she writes about her past and her marginal social situation as a disinherited woman and a worker. Unlike the fictional device used by other female writers of the time to tell the dramas of nineteenth-century femininity, Tristán writes in an autobiographical tone, signing her own name.