Geopolíticas de la cultura finesecular en Buenos Aires, París y México: las revistas literarias y el modernismo (Serie Nuevo Siglo)

by Adela Pineda Franco

The creation of this book was motivated by a reflection on the sense of immediacy and permeability of existing cultural and literary practices. Literary magazines are ideal vehicles for such reflection since they are destined not to last from their inception. Looking at the literary magazines of the late 19th century, one realises that letter and image go hand in hand in evoking modernity. Here we analyse four magazines that belong to heterogeneous Revista América (1894), from Buenos Aires, Mercure de France (1980-1933), from Paris, and Revista Azul (1894-96) and Revista Moderna (1989-1911) from México. The reading of the messages of modernity of these publications is determined by factors such as the material conditions of production and circulation of the magazines, the position of their producers in the cultural field, their negotiations with other fields and their geopolitical inscription. These genres were created to be read in a vivid and immediate way, rooted in
the present while the current reader approaches them with a perspective of reconstructing that modernity but can we establish a connection between these two readings?

168 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2006