Tupac Amaru in Ceuta and his exile memoirs

Chávez J.M. · Historia Social (2020)

Resumen

This article is a biographical, documentary and bibliographical approach to Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru, half brother of the leader of the 1780 rebellion in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Tupac Amaru II. Juan Bautista was accused of participating in said rebellion and sentenced to exile, which took place in Ceuta until 1822. After this period, he managed to reach Buenos Aires, where the government assigned him a pension so that he could write his memoirs. This article offers a profile of the character, contextualizes his experience in the Spanish penal colony and provides textual and editorial references about his memoir, El dilatado cautiverio.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos