GRAPH BOOKS: PRINTED MATTER FROM RADICAL ART AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.
FEMINIST HISTORIANS OF MATERIAL CULTURE.
La Trampa
Magda Portal, 1956 [1957]
Portal, Magda. La Trampa. Lima: Ediciones Raiz, 1956 [1957]. First edition. 17.5 cm, 138, (2), pp.; textblock toned with some foxing, illustrated wrapper bumped and foxed, flaps with author portrait, bio, and blurbs.
La Trampa is the only novel written by one of Peru’s most important writers, the revolutionary feminist Magda Portal (1900-1989). The semi-autobiographical story is a political murder mystery; she wrote it to sway public opinion on the imprisonment of Carlos Steer Lafón, responsible for the double assassination of a newspaper magnate and his wife in 1935. The character María de la Luz is based on Portal’s own experiences as a poet, activist, leader of an Aprista party, and a political prisoner.
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