Emergencias de la mediación intelectual. La Revista de América (París, 1912-1914) y la red de escritores latinoamericanos en Europa a comienzos del siglo XX

Abstract

My purpose consists in studying the Revista de América, founded and directed in Paris by Francisco García Calderón, as a publishing project. I focus on the links between latin American writers living there from the end of XIXth Century to the First World War, most of which were materialized in Publishing reviews. I intend to examine the diffusion of latin American productions in Europe, as well as some ideologic aspects and of intellectual intervention, that were articulated by this review. I firstly study its material caracteristics, both of the review’s publishing politics and of the links between exiled Latin-Americans. Then I try to analyze different ways of critical and cultural mediation, respectively, that have been carried out by the review: on the one hand, a critical mediation between writers and readers, by broadcasting the “bests of them”. On the other hand, it has displayed a mediation in two senses: between pairs, being a selective way of consecration and kniting together writers from different countries in Latin America. Finally, through an intercontinental mediation among Europpean and Latin-American cultures that brought them closer by means of a double action of legitimating the “overseas” thinking and arts, and interpreting the European recent artistics and intellectual expressions.