About

Ana Peluffo is a Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at UC Davis. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University and a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. Her research interests include affect and emotions, sexuality studies, nineteenth-century cultural studies, transnational feminisms, gender and race, and Latin American cinemas. Peluffo is also the President of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI) for 2024 and is affiliated with Women and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literature. She has contributed extensively to the field through her teaching of courses on Latin American short stories, women writers, youth cultures, and affect theory, among others. Her scholarly work includes editing volumes on Latin American literature in transition, translating significant texts, and publishing articles on gender, emotion, and cultural representations in Latin America. Peluffo's contributions have advanced understanding of Latin American cultural and literary history, emphasizing affect, gender, and transnational connections.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Humanities
• Law
• Art
• Ethnology
• Anthropology
• Media studies
• Aesthetics
• Philosophy
• History
• Linguistics
• Economic history

Selected publications

• Childhood, Race, and Gender

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022-12-08

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  In nineteenth-century Latin America, the idea that indigenous people were like children (that is to say primitive, sentimental, and innocent) was advanced in the interest of contradicting another, equally harmful characterization – that of the “Indian” as a menacing figure that would unify the nation as an object of collective antagonism.

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• Clorinda Matto en el siglo XXI

  LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2022-01-01

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  La figura de Clorinda Matto de Turner (Cusco, 1852 - Buenos Aires, 1909) ha adquirido, en los últimos años, un protagonismo mediático en el campo cultural que, de alguna manera, corrige los insultos y los ataques de los que fue objeto en el siglo XIX y el largo silencio en el que se sumió su obra luego de su exilio político en Buenos Aires, en 1895. Evidencia de este renovado interés en su legado fue el «I Congreso Internacional Clorinda Matto de Turner», que se realizó en el Cusco, en noviembre de 2018, para celebrar los 130 años de la publicación de su novela más leída, Aves sin nido (1889). Aunque las colaboradoras del volumen se aproximan a la obra de Matto desde diversos ángulos teóricos (el feminismo, la teoría poscolonial y decolonial, los estudios interseccionales, la lingüística, la historiografía, la teoría de los afectos y los estudios de la memoria, entre otros), todos los capítulos tienen en común el deseo de volver a pensar y problematizar su obra y sus aportes a la cultura peruana de ambos siglos.

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• Esclavitud infantil y muñecas vivientes en el Perú del siglo XIX

  Revista chilena de literatura · 2022-05-01 · 1 citations

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  particular, me focalizo en la genealoga de los nios robados, esclavizados, y regalados, tambin llamados cholitos, a los que no se les permita acceder a la idea sentimental de infancia que se impuso en el siglo XIX. A partir de una lectura de textos

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• Introduction

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022

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  Perhaps no period in Latin American history better exemplifies the word “transition” than the first seven decades of the nineteenth century. In 1800 the region was largely controlled by the Spanish and Portuguese empires, and seventy years later, it mostly consisted of independent nation-states, with the notable exceptions of Cuba and Puerto Rico.

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• Index

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• Historia de las literaturas en el Perú. Volumen 3. De la Ilustración a la modernidad (1780-1920)

  LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2021-07-01

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  En este ensayo partimos de un concepto derivado de la tradición anglosajona: «the long nineteenth-century», es decir, un periodo que excede los límites cronológicos del siglo y que está definido temporalmente por la Revolución francesa (1789) y el inicio de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914). Pensando esas grandes coordenadas temporales para el caso peruano, tenemos un primer umbral gestado por la rebelión indígena y los intentos de reforma del orden colonial desde la Ilustración (Rebelión de Túpac Amaru [1780], publicación del Mercurio Peruano [1790-1795]). Este umbral inaugural, definido por tensiones históricas que sobreviven hoy, culmina con el de las primeras experiencias plenamente modernas en la literatura (el modernismo y las vanguardias, y las «vidas de artista» de escritores como Abraham Valdelomar o José María Eguren) y, en el orden sociopolítico, con el final de la denominada República Aristocrática en la que eclosiona el discurso feminista y el movimiento obrero, y el inicio del oncenio de Leguía. Los estudios sobre la literatura del siglo XIX han experimentado un gran dinamismo, podríamos decir que una verdadera explosión, en las últimas tres décadas, y se han nutrido de las líneas de investigación de género, historia cultural, historia de la prensa, teoría de los afectos, gay and lesbian studies y, recientemente, de los estudios de la memoria. El enfoque de género ha sido particularmente productivo en el campo por la presencia gravitante de la primera generación de ilustradas peruanas en el siglo XIX y por la producción de nuevos conocimientos desde un marco teórico articulado con los estudios de la memoria, que cuestionan su olvido del imaginario nacional y su exclusión durante décadas del canon literario nacional. Así, el miedo a la desestabilización sexogenérica que provocaron los nuevos modelos de femineidad letrada en el último tercio del siglo XIX son leídos desde arcos históricos que abarcan nuestro presente y potencian su resignificación (Denegri, 2018, pp. 255-266). La mirada al pasado desde los conflictos del presente legitima lecturas cuyo interés político se inspira en los activismos y las agendas feministas globales de finales del siglo XX y comienzos del siglo XXI. Al interés por las genealogías femeninas se suman ahora los de la violencia de género, la feminización del indigenismo, las redes de mujeres y la feminización de las lectorías en el siglo XIX peruano. La teoría de los afectos, como la de la memoria, complejizan el campo al desestabilizar las jerarquías implícitas en los binomios emoción y razón, que a su vez contienen estereotipos y jerarquías en lo que respecta a las autorías femeninas y masculinas en el canon nacional. Hacen lo propio las teorías queer (cuir) al centrar su indagación en las especificidades de las corporalidades no heteronormativas, de los regímenes económicos del sujeto cuir, y de temporalidades cuyas lógicas funcionan de manera autónoma a las de la familia y el pater familiae.

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• Pensar el siglo XIX desde los afectos

  Mora · 2020-12-01

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  Este ensayo recorre los principales aportes teóricos del giro afectivo (Sara Ahmed, Brian Massumi, Peter Stearns) y de lxs historiadorxs de la emoción (Barbara Rosenwein, William Reddy) para ver de qué manera una aproximación en clave emocional sobre los textos decimonónicos nos puede servir para desestabilizar, subvertir y/o complementar lecturas canónicas muy arraigadas en el imaginario crítico. A partir de esta historización de los afectos, este análisis se centra en la racialización y feminización de las emociones para pensar específicamente la politización del sentimentalismo y la necesidad de recobrar formas de leer el lenguaje no referencial del afecto que hemos perdido en el siglo XXI.

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• Pedagogía de los afectos en los manuales de urbanidad y etiqueta para niñas: 1853-1919

  Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) · 2020-12-01 · 1 citations

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  In this article I study the ways in which urbanity and etiquette manuals, published in the second half of the nineteenth-century at both sides of the Atlantic, promoted a pedagogy of affect that aimed at disciplining the emotional lives of nineteenth-century girls. In particular, I focus on the ways in which miniaturized emotions were racialized, feminized and/or masculinized with the goal of building a liberal and heteronormative social order that creolized etiquette maxims from European manuals. The process of domesticating emotions was geared toward encouraging affects that feminized girls while repressing emotions that were considered dangerous for the patriarchal order and the biopolitics of gender.

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• The Moral Electricity of Print: Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women’s Circuit, 1876–1910 by Ronald Briggs

  Revista hispánica moderna/Revista hispanica moderna · 2020

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  Reviewed by: The Moral Electricity of Print: Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women’s Circuit, 1876–1910 by Ronald Briggs Ana Peluffo KEYWORDS Transatlantic Networks, Sentimentality, Affect, Literary Salons, Ronald Briggs, Matto de Turner, Gorriti, Pedagogy, Sisterhood, Hemispheric Americanism ronald briggs. The Moral Electricity of Print: Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women’s Circuit, 1876–1910. Vanderbilt UP, 2017, 254 pp. Ronald’s Briggs The Moral Electricity of Print could not be timelier in its publication. It comes at a time when debates on transnational networks, feminism and cross-border politics have achieved renewed urgency in the academy, motorized in part by the Ni Una Menos movement in Latin America, and the rampant xenophobia and misogyny of the Trump administration. Briggs’s compelling and historically grounded reading of the Veladas Literarias, a feminist salon hosted in Lima by Juana Manuela Gorriti in 1876–1877 and revived by Clorinda Matto de Turner after the War of the Pacific blurs national borders by showing that many of the cultural conversations that took place there were hemispheric and international in scope. His engaging take on Gorriti’s salons as the epicenter of a trans-national gendered network that stretches its elastic borders across nations calls attention to the ways in which Peruvian debates on nation-building and women’s education intersected with global conversations in the US and Europe on the same topics. The main argument of the book is that for writers of Gorriti’s generation literature was not a formal endeavor based on fixed notions of aesthetic purity but rather a messy political terrain in which boundaries between pedagogy and art, reason and sentiment, politics and aesthetics were often blurred. Briggs weaves into his archive an impressive range of transnational sources that he is careful to contextualize and situate at the local level. In the book, he combines close readings of works by Gorriti, Matto de Turner, González de Fanning, Beecher Stowe, Serrano de Wilson, and Acosta de Samper, among others, with theoretical discussions on the circulation, translation, and appropriation of books and ideas across national borders. Drawing upon a variety of theoretical sources—including cosmopolitanism, feminism, transnational theory, and post-colonial studies—he proposes new readings of nineteenth-century canonic and non-canonic texts “in which the burning literary question is pedagogical” (5). Awarded a prestigious award by the nineteenth-century LASA section for the best book of 2017 in the area of nineteenth-century cultural studies, the monograph is a welcome addition to cultural historians working in several interrelated and multidisciplinary fields of study. One of the strengths of the monograph is the idea that the transnational circulation of books resulted in the construction of diasporic cultural communities that became an alternative to the masculine lettered city. When discussing the pedagogical implications of salon culture, Briggs points out that in a society that was extremely hostile to women intellectuals, the feminized space of the tertulia became an oasis in which women could provide for themselves the mentorship [End Page 239] and support that society at large denied them at the institutional level. “As a marginalized minority within the field of literature,” he claims in the introduction, “women writers often linked group and individual success” (4). In order to trace the genealogy of the salonnière as a self-taught cultural hostess, Briggs studies the autobiographical writings of colonial and early nineteenth-century authors who relied on autodidacticism to build their intellectual personas. According to Briggs, women writers from the Lima cultural circle shared with their intellectual predecessors a utopian vision of the “teaching book” and the social novel that mimics the complex dynamics of the mentor-mentee relationship while acting as an extension of the classroom space. Rather than fetishizing the book as a diasporic material artefact, or the novel as a form, Briggs shows that nineteenth-century novels had much in common with textbooks, anthologies, and the journals in which they were often serialized. Whereas previous scholars have used the veladas to trace the genealogy of Peruvian feminism and to study conversations that took place there on women’s education, the feminization of civility, gender discrimination in the workforce, and suffragism, among other pressing topics, Briggs opts...

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• Simpósio: cinco questões sobre os estudos de gênero na América Latina

  Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro) · 2020 · 1 citations

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• Mónica Szurmuk

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• Debra A. Castillo

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• Caterina Giusa

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• Abraham Paniagua Vázquez

  Autonomous University of Chiapas

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• Maurice Stierl

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• Juan Carlos Ávalos

  Neurology, Inc

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• Joanna Regulska

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• Sergio Prieto‐González

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