by Flora Tristan · Nuevo Extremo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789871068166
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«Mi vida» is Flora Tristán's intimate diary, published by Nuevo Extremo in paperback (302 pages, in Spanish).
In this diary, Flora Tristán, a forerunner of feminism and grandmother of Paul Gauguin, recounts her journey to Peru to claim her paternal inheritance while enduring poverty and harassment from the husband she left. The author reflects on her illegitimate origins, her failed marriage, and the difficult situation of women in her era.
This volume translates a selection from Pérégrinations d'une paria, a work originally published in 1837.
For readers interested in the history of feminism, nineteenth-century travel narratives, and autobiographical literature written by women.
Flore Célestine Thérèse Henriette Tristán y Moscoso, better known as Flora Tristan, was a French-Peruvian writer and socialist activist. She made important contributions to early feminist theory. She argued that the progress of women's rights was directly related to the progress of the working class. She wrote several works, the best known of which are Peregrinations of a Pariah (1838), Promenades in London (1840), and The Workers' Union (1843). Tristan was the grandmother of the painter Paul Gauguin.
