El anonimato como performance textual: ‘Clarinda’ y Amarilis reconsideradasAnonimity as Textual Performance: Reconsidering ‘Clarinda’ and Amarilis

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Abstract This article reconsiders anonymity in the works of the Peruvian poets known as ‘Clarinda’ and Amarilis. By analyzing this topic from the theory of reception, I argue that far from experiencing the lack of an author as a problem, we can understand it in the context of production and textual reception as planned by the poets. I propose that if anonymity in a text is a conscious choice made by the author, this lack of signature can be thought as a textual strategy purposefully employed by the producer of the text. Thus, both poets transform the social practice of the tapada into a textual strategy of freedom and expression.