Caracol
type: channel
description: Caracol is a biannual publication in the field of Spanish Language and Spanish/Spanish-American Literature produced by the Department of Modern Literature of the School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo. It aims to publish original contributions in Spanish/Portuguese, interviews, reviews and, potentially, rare texts of interest to the academic debate in the disciplines of Spanish Literature, Spanish-American Literature, Spanish Language and Translation, being the only magazine in Brazil entirely dedicated to Hispanic Studies. Qualis grade: B1.
publisher: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
language: en
publication name: Caracol
issn: 2178-1702
copyright: Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms: Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits the dissemination of the work with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal. Authors are allowed to enter into additional contracts separately for non-exclusive use of the version of the work published in this journal (such as publication in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal. Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their personal page) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this can generate productive changes, as well as increasing the impact and citation of the published work (see The effect of open access…).
items: Em torno aos 100 anos de Marinero en tierra: leituras e releituras
items: Radiations from a Center. Interview with José Antonio Mesa Toré, Director of the Generation of '27 Cultural Center
items: The Library of a Generation. Interview with Javier La Beira Strani, director of the Library of the Generation of '27 Cultural Center
items: Hispanic-Brazilian Generational Dialogues: Survey of the Presence of the Generación del 27 in Brazil
items: Un grande abrazo: Review of La Amistad, Patria de los Sin Patria: an unpublished epistolary edited by Barbara Greco
items: Semantic Cartography of Sobre los ángeles: A Study of Isotopies and Metaphors in the Poetry of Rafael Alberti
items: Memory and Visions of Culture in La arboleda Perdida. Libros I y II
items: The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature (2024): a Critical Reconfiguration of Cuban Literary Historiography
items: Impresos, periódicos y sociabilidades letradas en Hispanoamérica (siglos XVIII-XIX)
items: Alberti and Cernuda: banished poets
items: A comparative study of Marinero en tierra and Versos humanos
items: «Un toque de azar absoluto»: dream and story in César Aira
items: Variations on Exile: Rafael Alberti and María Zambrano
items: Affective and perceptive fictions of precariousness in recent Argentine literature
items: The Representation of the Combatant Woman in Rafael Alberti’s “La miliciana del Tajo (Balada)” (1938). Tradición poética e imaginación popular
items: Alexandre Dumas’ Teresa in Andrés Bello’s Version (1839), or a Partial Experiment of Theatre Genetics from a Translation
items: Writting dose. Old age and drugs in La vida a ratos the Juan José Millás
items: Literature and Advertising (Buenos Aires, 1870-1890)
items: The Constitution of Cadiz and the Birth of Public Opinion in Havana (1810-1814)
items: The temporality of prints and the time for writing: 19th century almanacs andcalendars in Río de La Plata
items: The Geography of Enunciation of Archivo Americano y Espíritu de la Prensa del Mundo (1843-1851)
items: Death, politics and satire in Mexican popular broadsheets: the “calaveras” from the Porfiriato to the Revolution
items: "Always have Independence and Order as your motto". El Eco Oriental (1827) and adherence to the unity of regime in the context of the war between the United Provinces and the Empire of Brazil
items: A “communications circuit”: The newspapers in the Viceroyaltyof Peru (1811-1820)
items: Victor Hugo from the salon to the press. The circulation of Alberdi 's Claude Gueux translation between Buenos Aires and Montevideo in the late 1830s
items: Americanist Ideasand Liberalism in two of Alberto Blest Gan´s chronicles
items: Transatlantic Circulation of Discourses on the Castes of New Spain (18th century)
items: The press in the province of Antioquia has undergone along journey: from official journalism to independentand partisan journalism
items: The journalistic work of José A. Alzate in the debate on the nature of America (1768-1795)
items: Fashion, consumption, and gender in Correo del Domingo (1864-1868)

Em torno aos 100 anos de Marinero en tierra: leituras e releituras
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description: This dossier offers a critical reflection on the centenary of Marinero en tierra, Rafael Alberti’s inaugural book, addressing both the impact of its appearance in the Spanish poetic scene of the 1920s and the diverse reverberations it has generated throughout the twentieth century and in contemporary criticism. Rather than treating the work as a fixed historical milestone, the contributions gathered here approach Marinero en tierra and its surroundings as a radiating core of aesthetic, historical, and cultural questions that traverse Spanish poetry, the experience of Republican exile, and its dialogues with other literary traditions, particularly the Brazilian one. The dossier brings together comparative perspectives, studies of intellectual and sociability networks, analyses of Alberti’s poetry and prose, reflections on exile as a symbolic and historical condition, and close readings of key works by the poet. Organized along a trajectory that moves from broader mappings to more specific analyses, this issue articulates tradition and avant-garde, memory and displacement, historical inquiry and aesthetic reassessment, thus contributing to current debates on the lasting relevance of Rafael Alberti’s work one hundred years after the publication of Marinero en tierra.
subject: Presentation
  topic: section
subject: Rafael Alberti
  topic: keywords
subject: Marinero en tierra
  topic: keywords
subject: Generation of ’27
  topic: keywords
subject: Spanish Republican exile
  topic: keywords
subject: twentieth-century Spanish poetry
  topic: keywords
creator: Margareth Santos
creator: Mayra Moreyra Carvalho
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Margareth Santos, Mayra Moreyra Carvalho https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 14
ending page: 24
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p14-24

Radiations from a Center. Interview with José Antonio Mesa Toré, Director of the Generation of '27 Cultural Center
type: item
description: Entrevista a José Antonio Mesa Toré - Director del Centro Cultural Generación del 27
subject: Interviews
  topic: section
creator: José Antonio Mesa Toré
creator: Margareth Santos
creator: Mayra Moreyra Carvalho
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 José Antonio Mesa Toré, Margareth Santos , Mayra Moreyra Carvalho https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 229
ending page: 243
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p229-243

The Library of a Generation. Interview with Javier La Beira Strani, director of the Library of the Generation of '27 Cultural Center
type: item
description: Entrevista a Javier Strani - Director de la Biblioteca del Centro de la Generación del 27
subject: Interviews
  topic: section
creator: Javier La Beira Strani
creator: Margareth Santos
creator: Mayra Moreyra Carvalho
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Javier La Beira Strani , Margareth Santos, Mayra Moreyra Carvalho https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 244
ending page: 249
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p244-249

Hispanic-Brazilian Generational Dialogues: Survey of the Presence of the Generación del 27 in Brazil
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description: This article proposes the mapping of a research on the Brazilian Generation of 45 and the Argentine Generation of 42, considering, in this case, the known interlocutions with the current Garcilasista and the Spanish Generation of 27, which is not the first case, and something remains to be investigated. The Brazilian poetic context of the second Post-war, an emerging generation, as well as the most representative names from our avant-garde two years later revealed in their works a neoclassical turn refined with a tendency corresponding to the aforementioned Argentine generation, like Garcilasismo. In view of this, research into translations, poetic homages and critical studies in Brazil on the Geração of 27. We are also interested in the most effective exchanges between Brazilian and Spanish poets, such as Murilo Mendes, Rafael Alberti and Damaso Alonso (the latter a translator of Brazilian poets).
subject: Dossier
  topic: section
subject: Modern Poetry
  topic: keywords
subject: Age of 45
  topic: keywords
subject: Argentine Generation of 42
  topic: keywords
subject: Spanish Generation of 27
  topic: keywords
subject: Neoclassical turn
  topic: keywords
creator: Vagner Camilo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vagner Camilo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 26
ending page: 76
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p26-76

Un grande abrazo: Review of La Amistad, Patria de los Sin Patria: an unpublished epistolary edited by Barbara Greco
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description: O epistolário La Amistad, patria de los sin patria, composto por correspondências entre María Teresa León, Rafael Alberti e Max Aub, e editado por Barbara Greco, constitui um testemunho raro e significativo da prática epistolar entre intelectuais espanhóis exilados após a Guerra Civil Espanhola. O conjunto reúne 44 cartas, quase todas manuscritas, de María Teresa León; 3 cartas de Rafael Alberti; 3 cartas de Aitana Alberti León; e 30 cartas de Max Aub. Redigidas em contextos de deslocamento geográfico e político, essas cartas não apenas documentam as relações pessoais entre León, Alberti e Aub, mas configuram um campo discursivo em que a amizade construída nesse distanciamento opera como forma articuladora de pertencimento simbólico e de continuidade subjetiva.
subject: Dossier - Book reviews
  topic: section
subject: Amizade
  topic: keywords
subject: Exílio
  topic: keywords
subject: Cartas
  topic: keywords
creator: Raphael Boccardo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Raphael Boccardo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 251
ending page: 257
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p251-257

Semantic Cartography of Sobre los ángeles: A Study of Isotopies and Metaphors in the Poetry of Rafael Alberti
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description: The present article analyzes the networks of operation of isotopies and metaphors in Sobre los ángeles (1929) by Rafael Alberti from a semiotic perspective. Through the analysis of the poetry collection, it becomes evident how these semantic structures configure a web of meanings that articulates the existential crisis and the fragmentation of the poetic subject. This study explores the interaction between isotopies and metaphors in the construction of the work’s symbolic universe, where angels function as elements that embody disorientation and emptiness. A semiotic approach is employed to examine the dynamics between the isotopies of the celestial, the fall, and the loss of identity, among others. The findings reveal that the combination of these discursive mechanisms reinforces the philosophical and aesthetic dimensions of the poetry collection, highlighting a poetics of crisis in which the symbolic structure reflects the disillusionment and disintegration of the poetic subject.
subject: Dossier
  topic: section
subject: Metaphor
  topic: keywords
subject: Isotopy
  topic: keywords
subject: Rafael Alberti
  topic: keywords
subject: Poetry
  topic: keywords
subject: Semiotics
  topic: keywords
creator: Fernando Candón Ríos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Fernando Candón Ríos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 183
ending page: 207
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p183-207

Memory and Visions of Culture in La arboleda Perdida. Libros I y II
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description: Inside the autobiographical and memoirist discourse of La Arboleda Perdida. Books I and II, corresponding to the stage of American exile, develop Rafael Alberti's visions of culture. The connections and displacements between the popular, the cultured and the mass culture (Chauí, Blanco, Williams, Martín-Barbero) demonstrate a truly democratic and modern reflection of the author, consistent with the auto-figuration (Heinich, Premat) of the writer.
subject: Dossier
  topic: section
subject: Memory
  topic: keywords
subject: Cultural visions
  topic: keywords
subject: Rafael Alberti
  topic: keywords
subject: Exile-autobiography
  topic: keywords
creator: Silvia Cárcamo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Silvia Cárcamo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 77
ending page: 106
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p77-106

The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature (2024): a Critical Reconfiguration of Cuban Literary Historiography
type: item
subject: Book Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Ivan Gabriel Grajales Melian
creator: Yessy Villavicencio Simón
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ivan Gabriel Grajales Melian, Yessy Villavicencio Simón https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 344
ending page: 351
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p344-351

Impresos, periódicos y sociabilidades letradas en Hispanoamérica (siglos XVIII-XIX)
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description: Con el dossier Impresos, periódicos y sociabilidades letradas en Hispanoamérica (siglos XVIII-XIX), nos propusimos reunir estudios sobre un capítulo fundamental de la historia de los impresos en la región. El período abarcado va desde la intensificación de la circulación de impresos y el surgimiento de las primeras gacetas y diarios en los virreinatos durante las últimas décadas del siglo XVIII hasta la consolidación de la prensa moderna en las décadas finales del siglo XIX. Para abordar la diversidad de temporalidades y prácticas letradas que caracterizan este período, el dossier se organiza en tres secciones: Impresos y periódicos en el ocaso del período colonial, Impresos, política y opinión pública en la época de las Independencias y Diarios, diversificación de la lectura en la etapa republicana; y La circulación de impresos y la traducción.
subject: Presentation
  topic: section
subject: Periodical press
  topic: keywords
subject: Lettered sociabilities
  topic: keywords
subject: Spanish America (18th–19th centuries)
  topic: keywords
subject: Circulation of ideas
  topic: keywords
subject: Print culture
  topic: keywords
creator: Hernán Pas
creator: Bruno Verneck
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Hernán Pas, Bruno Verneck https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 16
ending page: 22
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p16-22

Alberti and Cernuda: banished poets
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description: The civil war and the subsequent military regime in Spain from 1936 caused the exile of notable artists and writers, including Luis Cernuda and Rafael Alberti, members of the Generation of '27. The lives of both poets were affected by this event, which became a central theme of their poetry. This paper compares, at different times and based on some of their poems, the way in which each of them expressed and elaborated their ostracism. While Cernuda took it as a subject of personal meditation that implies much more than geographical distance, to the point of being indifferent to the possibility of return, Alberti frequently took a position in favour of the republican cause in a committed poetry, although also giving space to the expression of homesickness, and always with the hope of return. Thus, we identify two paradigms of the literary treatment of exile in two of the most original works of modern Spanish poetry.
subject: Dossier
  topic: section
subject: Exile in literature
  topic: keywords
subject: Rafael Alberti
  topic: keywords
subject: Luis Cernuda
  topic: keywords
subject: Generation of '27
  topic: keywords
subject: Spanish Civil War
  topic: keywords
creator: Darío Gómez Sánchez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Darío Gómez Sánchez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 135
ending page: 161
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p135-161

A comparative study of Marinero en tierra and Versos humanos
type: item
description: In 1925, two works won the Spanish National Literature Prize, Marinero en tierra by Rafael Alberti and Versos humanos by Gerardo Diego. In this article we will make a comparative study of both collections of poems to highlight the common features of two authors who perfectly represent the essence of the Generation of 1927. We will show the influence of traditional and popular lyric poetry in several of the poems, as well as recurring themes (the sea, death and love). In terms of style, both poets combine tradition and the avant-garde and they are influenced by other arts, which are also defining elements of this brilliant poetic generation.
subject: Dossier
  topic: section
subject: Poetry
  topic: keywords
subject: Alberti
  topic: keywords
subject: Gerardo Diego
  topic: keywords
subject: Generation of 27
  topic: keywords
subject: Marinero en tierra
  topic: keywords
subject: Versos humanos
  topic: keywords
creator: Ana María Alonso Fernández
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ana María Alonso Fernández https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 208
ending page: 227
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p208-227

«Un toque de azar absoluto»: dream and story in César Aira
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description: The paper presents an analysis of the inventive power of the dream in César Aira’s fictions. In them, the dream becomes a model for the writing of ‘pure stories’ that are removed from the realm of explanation. But these are not –in novels such as El sueño, La Abeja, La villa or Un sueño realizado– prestigious dreams but, on the contrary, minor, banal, almost ridiculous dreams. Disencumbered of the symbolic prestige that it might have had in the Borgean tradition and in fantastic literature, the dream in Aira’s novels engages in a kind of dialogue with waking life that produces, among other things, particular visions of space. In short, this paper proposes that in the author’s urban novels we can capture a fin-de-siècle phantasmagoria that focuses on the minor lives of subjects affected by the generative power of the dream.
subject: Varia
  topic: section
subject: César Aira
  topic: keywords
subject: Contemporary Argentine Literature
  topic: keywords
subject: Dream
  topic: keywords
subject: Space
  topic: keywords
subject: Surrealism
  topic: keywords
creator: Juan José Guerra
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Juan José Guerra https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 259
ending page: 281
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p259-281

Variations on Exile: Rafael Alberti and María Zambrano
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description: This study explores exile as a symbol from Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutic perspective in two key figures of the Generation of ’27: Rafael Alberti and María Zambrano. In Marinero en tierra (1924), Alberti expresses his deep-rooted connection and anticipates his way of facing exile through love and a bond with the land. Zambrano, in turn, develops a phenomenology of exile in works such as Filosofía y poesía (1939), Hacia un saber sobre el alma (1950), and El hombre y lo divino (1955), linking this experience to her method of poetic reason. Exile, as a key to interpretation, represents the human being’s separation from an original state of fulfillment, echoing the myth of the lost paradise. Beyond its territorial dimension, it symbolizes a rupture in identity and the sense of belonging. In Alberti and Zambrano, exile is confirmed as both a loss of spatial center and collective time; this experience defines their respective works.
subject: Dossier
  topic: section
subject: Rafael Alberti
  topic: keywords
subject: María Zambrano
  topic: keywords
subject: Exile
  topic: keywords
subject: Identity
  topic: keywords
subject: Poetic reason
  topic: keywords
creator: Ethel Junco
creator: Claudio César Calabrese
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ethel Junco; Claudio César Calabrese https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 107
ending page: 134
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p107-134

Affective and perceptive fictions of precariousness in recent Argentine literature
type: item
description: Recent Argentine literature highlights how precarity impacts lives, reorganizes bodies and affective connections, permeates subjectivities —exposed to increasing uncertainty, vulnerability, and instability—, alters ways of inhabiting and navigating spaces, and shapes the forms that social relationships take, particularly the possibilities of perceiving, understanding, and naming others. This article addresses the emergence of affective and perceptive fictions of precariousness that explore the links between poverty and frameworks of recognition, showing how the perception of others impacts subjectivities and the circulation of affect. The essay provides an overview of these fictions, focusing on their predominant features as well as certain nuances and shifts they exhibit in shaping experiences of precariousness. Additionally, it includes an analysis of La guerra de los gimnasios by César Aira to delve deeper into the proposed trends.
subject: Varia
  topic: section
subject: Contemporary Argentine Literature
  topic: keywords
subject: Neoliberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Precarity
  topic: keywords
subject: Affectivities
  topic: keywords
subject: César Aira
  topic: keywords
creator: Silvina Sánchez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Silvina Sánchez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 282
ending page: 316
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p282-316

The Representation of the Combatant Woman in Rafael Alberti’s “La miliciana del Tajo (Balada)” (1938). Tradición poética e imaginación popular
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description: This article analyzes the representation of the militiawoman in “La miliciana del Tajo (Balada)” (1938) by Rafael Alberti published in El Mono Azul within the context of the Spanish Civil War. It examines the literary and cultural tradition that informs the republican poetics (Golden Age Spanish literature) and explores how the figure of the militiawoman reflects the author’s nostalgia of the spontaneous people’s resistance, as well as the era’s gender ideals and the shifts brought about by the war. Alberti reinterprets the tragic destiny of the female fighter as symbol that dialogues with Spanish literary heritage, with the popular imagination regarding female life stories and with the collective imagination surrounding the Republic and the Spanish people's resistance.
subject: Dossier
  topic: section
subject: Spanish Civil War
  topic: keywords
subject: Propaganda Literature
  topic: keywords
subject: Republican Poetics
  topic: keywords
subject: Rafael Alberti
  topic: keywords
subject: Militiawoman
  topic: keywords
creator: Virginia Bonatto
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Virginia Bonatto https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 162
ending page: 182
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p162-182

Alexandre Dumas’ Teresa in Andrés Bello’s Version (1839), or a Partial Experiment of Theatre Genetics from a Translation
type: item
description: This article aims to study Andrés Bello's translation of Alexandre Dumas' play Teresa (1832) to tentatively reconstruct part of nineteenth-century Chile's dramaturgical and theatrical universe. Based mainly on methodologies of theatrical genetics (Grésillon, Thomasseau, Féral) and on a comparison of the translation with its original, and starting from the premise that Bello's text is an arrangement of the original, with substantial modifications both at dramaturgical and microtextual level, the essay aims to understand the artistic, political and social reasons behind these changes, within its context and, ultimately, to try to fill a historiographical gap around the theatrical practices of the nineteenth century in Chile.
subject: Dossier: La circulación de impresos y la traducción
  topic: section
subject: Andrés Bello
  topic: keywords
subject: Alexandre Dumas
  topic: keywords
subject: Teresa
  topic: keywords
subject: Theatre Translation
  topic: keywords
subject: Theatre Genetics
  topic: keywords
creator: Andrea Pelegrí Kristić
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Andrea Pelegri Kristic https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 507
ending page: 543
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p507-543

Writting dose. Old age and drugs in La vida a ratos the Juan José Millás
type: item
description: Based on the assumption that the treatment of illness has a structural place in the work of Juan José Millás, the aim of this article is to analyze La vida a ratos (2019) from the intersection between old age and drugs. Dimensions that produce in the narrative of this author a point of inflection that makes the text present itself in the form of a diary. This point of inflection is what our work wants to interrogate. We maintain that in La vida a ratos we can see a particular modulation of millasean writing, which takes place at the crossroads between old age and drugs, and manifests itself under the figure of the scriptural dose. This figure synthesizes the narrative fragmentation and contraction that La vida a ratos brings as a novelty. At the same time, it exposes how the text adopts a pharmacological functioning that, from the question of old age, enables Millás a new type of formal exploration.
subject: Varia
  topic: section
subject: Diary
  topic: keywords
subject: Illness
  topic: keywords
subject: Old Age
  topic: keywords
subject: Drugs
  topic: keywords
subject: Millás
  topic: keywords
creator: Sofia Dolzani
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sofía Dolzani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 317
ending page: 342
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p317-342

Literature and Advertising (Buenos Aires, 1870-1890)
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description: Between 1870 and 1890, between the publication of El gaucho Martín Fierro (1872) and the arrival of Rubén Darío in Buenos Aires (1893), literature and advertising maintained unique relationships. Modern advertising had just emerged in the 1860s, while the project of a national literature, between newspapers and books, was beginning to be fulfilled. The article examines five episodes of literary history (A Visit to the Ranquel Indians by Lucio V. Mansilla, The Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández, Juan Moreira by Eduardo Gutiérrez, a short novel by Juana Manuela Gorriti and a successful literary and artistic almanac of the end of the century) that were also episodes in the history of advertising.
subject: Dossier: Diarios y diversificación de la lectura en la etapa republicana
  topic: section
subject: History of Argentine literature
  topic: keywords
subject: history of advertising
  topic: keywords
subject: history of newspapers
  topic: keywords
subject: nineteenth century
  topic: keywords
creator: Sergio Pastormerlo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sergio Pastormerlo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 413
ending page: 441
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p413-441

The Constitution of Cadiz and the Birth of Public Opinion in Havana (1810-1814)
type: item
description: This paper examines the impact of the Cádiz Constitution (1810-1814) on the Cuban press and the formation of public opinion. During this period, freedom of the press allowed for a proliferation of publications, transforming the press into a forum for political and social debate, often masked through libel and personal attacks. It analyzes how, despite censorship control exercised by traditional elites, the press facilitated the dissemination of liberal and constitutionalist ideas, promoting citizen participation in public debates and political polarization. The emergence of numerous newspapers and pamphlets during these years, in addition to reflecting the political tensions of the insular society, contributed decisively to the modernization of Cuban journalism and literature.
subject: Dossier: Impresos, política y opinión pública en la época de las Independencias
  topic: section
subject: Havana
  topic: keywords
subject: Constitution of Cadiz
  topic: keywords
subject: Freedom of the press
  topic: keywords
subject: Public opinion
  topic: keywords
creator: Alain J. Santos Fuentes
creator: Juan B. Amores Carredano
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Juan Bosco Amores Carredano, Alain Jesús Fuentes Santos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 155
ending page: 198
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p155-198

The temporality of prints and the time for writing: 19th century almanacs andcalendars in Río de La Plata
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description: The popularization of almanacs and calendars was a phenomenon that characterized printed culture in the 19th century. They were an everyday element that only in recent years began to capture the interest of researchers. Based on the survey of a limited corpus of almanacs published in Río de la Plata, we explore the intersection between temporalities, the materiality of the prints, and the practice of appropriation by their readers —people who left marks, notes, and reflections on their pages. Almanacs and calendars are privileged printed materials for observing technical transformations, political ups and downs and the shifts in the daily life of an increasingly diverse reading public. The analysis of the changes and permanences in this type of long-lasting printed material —strongly associated with generic conventions— allows us to appreciate the novelties and continuities in the daily life of ordinary audiences.
subject: Dossier: Diarios y diversificación de la lectura en la etapa republicana
  topic: section
subject: Almanacs
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subject: Press
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subject: 19th Century
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subject: Readers
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subject: Ordinary Writers
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creator: Lucía Pose
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Lucía Pose https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 294
ending page: 330
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p294-330

The Geography of Enunciation of Archivo Americano y Espíritu de la Prensa del Mundo (1843-1851)
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description: The article proposes a preliminary approach to Pedro De Angelis’s newspaper Archivo Americano y Espíritu de la Prensa del Mundo (1843-1851) from two perspectives: first, it analyses the combination of journalistic matrices that the publication presents and that is reflected in the dual character of the title (an “archive” and a “spirit”). Second, it examines the construction in the pages of the newspaper of an American locus of enunciation that, also articulated from the title through two separate and at the same time united spaces (“the American”, America and the World), is exercised in the critical and distanced reading of the foreign press and competes with the romantic ways of working with the authority of the European text by proposing alternative ways of reading the discourses that were written from outside about America and, fundamentally, about the Río de la Plata.
subject: Dossier: Diarios y diversificación de la lectura en la etapa republicana
  topic: section
subject: 19th century
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subject: Argentine press
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subject: Rosismo
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subject: Pedro de Angelis
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subject: American discourse
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creator: María Laura Romano
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 María Laura Romano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 331
ending page: 362
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p331-362

Death, politics and satire in Mexican popular broadsheets: the “calaveras” from the Porfiriato to the Revolution
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description: To add to the knowledge of the instances of production, circulation and reception of printed matter in the Hispanic American sphere of the 19th century and limiting myself to the Mexican space, I have studied how the political theme was a relevant factor for the configuration of certain popular literary genres. This is notable in the case of the calaveras, which are a satirical poetic form in the current Mexican literary tradition. Here I present the study of the calaveras of political themes produced by the printing press of Antonio Vanegas Arroyo between 1880 and 1917, arguing that they are key materials to understand the splendor and decline of the calaveras as an editorial form. I propose a classification of the calaveras into five categories, based on the way in which the political theme was intertwined with death as a literary artifice and on the consequences that it had on the satirical tone and the critical intention of the discourse.
subject: Dossier: Diarios y diversificación de la lectura en la etapa republicana
  topic: section
subject: popular press
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subject: calaveras
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subject: popular satire
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subject: political representations
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subject: Mexican revolution
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creator: Grecia Monroy Sánchez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Grecia Monroy Sánchez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 442
ending page: 476
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p442-476

"Always have Independence and Order as your motto". El Eco Oriental (1827) and adherence to the unity of regime in the context of the war between the United Provinces and the Empire of Brazil
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description: The paper proposes to analyze El Eco Oriental, a republican, pro-independence and unitary newspaper that has not been subject of specific studies until now. It was published in the Provincia Oriental (Eastern Province) from March to April 1827, when the war between the United Provinces and the Empire of Brazil was still taking place. The main objective of its editors was to publicly defend the questioned Constitution that the General Congress held in Buenos Aires approved in December 1826. The paper first presents the political and journalistic context in which this press medium emerged. Then, it studies the formal characteristics of El Eco and offers information about its editors. Finally, it analyzes more extensively some aspects of the link between the concepts of republic, independence and order in this press medium. To this end, it also takes into account the debate generated in the Chamber of Deputies and in the provincial government regarding the same issues.
subject: Dossier: Impresos, política y opinión pública en la época de las Independencias
  topic: section
subject: River Plate
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subject: Independence
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subject: Eastern Province
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subject: Unitarianism
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subject: Press
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creator: Wilson González Demuro
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Wilson González Demuro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 229
ending page: 262
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p229-262

A “communications circuit”: The newspapers in the Viceroyaltyof Peru (1811-1820)
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description: The production, circulation and reading of newspapers between the years 1811 and 1820 in the viceroyalty of Peru is the subject of study of this essay. During those years, the viceroyalty of Peru in general, and Lima in particular, were inundated with a large number of foreign and local periodical publications. This process constitutes an exceptional window to appreciate the importance of print culture in a colonial context. From a methodological point of view, this study applies the so-called “communication circuit”, proposed by the American historian Robert Darnton. This is a proposal specific to the history of the book, which allows us to understand printed matter and its readers in their historical contexts.
subject: Dossier: Impresos y periódicos en el ocaso del período colonial
  topic: section
subject: Readers
  topic: keywords
subject: Newspapers
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subject: Viceroyalty of Peru
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subject: Printed cultures
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subject: Circuit of communication
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creator: Pedro M. Guibovich Pérez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pedro Guibovich Perez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 118
ending page: 153
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p118-153

Victor Hugo from the salon to the press. The circulation of Alberdi 's Claude Gueux translation between Buenos Aires and Montevideo in the late 1830s
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description: Towards the end of 1830, Juan Bautista Alberdi translated Claude Gueux, a story by Victor Hugo against the death penalty, to accompany the reading of his ‘Fragmento Preliminar al Estudio del Derecho’ at the meetings of the Literary Salon of 1837. Two years later, already exiled in Montevideo after the break with Rosas, he published the story in the newspaper El Corsario, which he edited. The aim of this article is to analyse the uses and effects of translation in its two contexts of circulation, especially in relation to a central problem for Buenos Aires romanticism at the time: that of the political representation of the literati in the context of Rosas.
subject: Dossier: La circulación de impresos y la traducción
  topic: section
subject: Translation
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subject: Romanticism
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subject: Circulation
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subject: Press
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subject: Literary sociability
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creator: Ana Eugenia Vazquez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Eugenia Vazquez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 478
ending page: 506
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p478-506

Americanist Ideasand Liberalism in two of Alberto Blest Gan´s chronicles
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description: In two os Alberto Blest Gan´s twelve chronicles published in the newspaper La voz de Chile in 1862, he vividly comments about Liberalism and the creation os Latin American Unions against European political and economical interventions in the Area. Those are rare opportunities to dig into this polemicist facet of the Chilean Novelist who scarcely wrote elsewhere about his political and ideological positions in a direct way.
subject: Dossier: Diarios y diversificación de la lectura en la etapa republicana
  topic: section
subject: Nineteenth Century Latin American Liberalism
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subject: Latin American Unions
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subject: Alberto Blest Gana
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creator: Laura Janina Hosiasson
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Laura Janina Hosiasson https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 363
ending page: 381
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p363-381

Transatlantic Circulation of Discourses on the Castes of New Spain (18th century)
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description: This paper seeks to demonstrate the processes of circulation of people and objects as a vehicle of ideas and discourses during the eighteenth century between New Spain and the Peninsula. On this occasion, caste painting is presented as a materialization of a novo-Hispanic socio-racial discourse in order to investigate the circuits in which this genre is inserted. The importance of the interweaving between images and texts for the construction of an imaginary about the inhabitants of New Spain based on the instance of circulation and reproduction of discourses of power is demonstrated.
subject: Dossier: Impresos y periódicos en el ocaso del período colonial
  topic: section
subject: Casta paintings
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subject: New Spain
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subject: 18th century
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subject: Circulation of ideas
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subject: Transatlantic circuits
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creator: Elisabeth Fromentoux Braga
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Elisabeth Fromentoux Braga https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 57
ending page: 83
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p57-83

The press in the province of Antioquia has undergone along journey: from official journalism to independentand partisan journalism
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description: The article presents a socio-historical journey of how the main newspapers emerged in the province of Antioquia during the first half of the 19th century, analyzing their various stages of development, starting with the arrival of the printing press and the first newspapers during the Independence process. , as well as, the configuration of elite sectors linked to the acquisition of the press and the journalistic function as a mechanism of social and political formation that allowed them to consolidate a social status within the province. Likewise, it shows the role of newspapers as means of disseminating the government, of configuring an Antioquia "identity", and, finally, the stage of the independent and partisan press, a time in which the partisan debate and a series of references typical of the revolutionary process in France in 1848 are disseminated.
subject: Dossier: Impresos, política y opinión pública en la época de las Independencias
  topic: section
subject: Antioquian press
  topic: keywords
subject: printing
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subject: indetity
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subject: offical press
  topic: keywords
subject: independet press
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creator: Juan Guillermo Zapata Ávila
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Juan Guillermo Zapata Ávila https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 263
ending page: 292
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p263-292

The journalistic work of José A. Alzate in the debate on the nature of America (1768-1795)
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description: During the Age of Enlightenment, an intense debate developed about the nature of America, in which European philosophers and naturalists questioned the prevailing historiography on pre-Hispanic societies and the processes of Spanish conquest and colonization. Theses based on degeneration, inferiority and indolence as characteristic elements of American nature began to gain strength. In the face of these ideas, coming mostly from northern Europe, but also sometimes from peninsular Spain, the Novo-Hispanic Creoles reacted firmly and defended the human and natural wealth of their territory. In order to delve deeper into the Creole participation in the dispute and the ideological consequences it had, I have analyzed the journalistic work of José Antonio Alzate, a Creole of Jesuit formation and enlightened thought whose publications are indispensable to understand the society of New Spain during the last third of the 18th century.
subject: Dossier: Impresos y periódicos en el ocaso del período colonial
  topic: section
subject: Alzate
  topic: keywords
subject: America
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subject: Creole
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subject: Enlightenment
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subject: Nature
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creator: Marcos Gallego Álvarez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Marcos Gallego Álvarez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 84
ending page: 117
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p84-117

Fashion, consumption, and gender in Correo del Domingo (1864-1868)
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description: This article analyzes the presence of fashion in the first period of the newspaper Correo del Domingo. Published in Buenos Aires between 1864 and 1868, a historical moment characterized by the increase of the population, the growth of the reading public and the incorporation of images in the periodical press, this publication was characterized by the wide variety of its contents. In the first section, the place of fashion in the Buenos Aires press from the first half of the nineteenth century is reviewed, and the editorial proposal of the newspaper under study is presented; secondly, images of fashion and its consumption are analyzed along with the texts that accompany them; finally, the texts on fashion written by the editor of the newspaper are approached from a gender perspective, to demonstrate how Correo del Domingo transmitted conservative ideals in this aspect. The paper contributes to the history of the illustrated and fashion press in Argentina; and helps to understand the relevance of fashion and clothing in a rapidly expanding city.
subject: Dossier: Diarios y diversificación de la lectura en la etapa republicana
  topic: section
subject: Fashion
  topic: keywords
subject: Illustratd press
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subject: 19th Century
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subject: Buenos Aires
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creator: Maria Teresita Garabana Gerez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Teresita Garabana https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-29
publication date: 2025-06-29
starting page: 382
ending page: 412
doi: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i29p382-412