Description

In this historical novel Teresa Gonz lez de Fanning (1836-1913), Peruvian educator and novelist, portrays the chaos that characterized Peru in the years immediately after Independence. The plot revolves around two haciendas, one owned by Roque Moreno, descendant from a family of freedmen, owner of an estate formerly belonging to the Jesuits, the other by Don Justo de la Vega Hermosa, a Spaniard based in Peru. Besides its interest in the culture of the haciendas in times of Peruvian President Agust n Gamarra, the novel also offers a psychological analysis based on racial concepts investigating the Peruvian self formed both by Spanish and black descendants.

Thomas Ward, a specialist in Peruvian literature, is a professor of Spanish and Latin and Latin American studies at Loyola University Maryland. Its introduction places «Roque Moreno, a novel negrista , within the path that goes from colonialism to blackness. «Roque Moreno is the second critical edition he publishes for Stockcero, the first, «The Dead Rose (2007) reintegrated Aurora C ceres in studies on modernism. It is expected that this edition will reinsert «Roque Moreno by Teresa Gonz lez de Fanning in studies on the historical novel.