Emergencies of the intellectual mediation. "La Revista de América" (Paris, 1912-1914) and the network of Latin-American writers in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century

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.