Words and latin american modern press (1860-1900)

Abstract

Since 1860, the date is an average, literary modernization enters through different places of Latin America. This novelty is associated with a general analogous process –but of which it’s not a simple mirror– of the economic and social field. This modernization rejects on the one hand the impositions of capitalism and, on the other, takes advantage of its capacity for expansion in the speeches of the press, the serialized novel, in the pamphlet as a vehicle of greater diffusion, in the most select books, the keys to modify the ways of reading and, in addition, the conception of the world. This work aims to observe some fundamental points of the link between media and forms, the tension between nationalism and cosmopolitism and the figures of the writer and the journalist. For that the focus is placed on the struggle for the search for an American language, and the relationship between literary production, press, educators, printed and publics, taking into account several American examples of the period, especially from de Río de la Plata and Brazil.

Abstract: Since 1860, the date is an average, literary modernization enters through different places of Latin America. This novelty is associated with a general analogous process –but of which it’s not a simple mirror– of the economic and social field. This modernization rejects on the one hand the impositions of capitalism and, on the other, takes advantage of its capacity for expansion, has in the speeches of the press, the serialized novel, in the pamphlet as a vehicle of greater diffusion, in the most select books, the keys to modify the ways of reading and, in addition, the conception of the world. This work aims to observe some fundamental points of the link between media and forms, the tension between nationalism and cosmopolitism and the figures of the writer and the journalist. For that the focus is placed on the struggle for the search for an American language, and the relationship between literary production, press, educators, printed and publics, taking into account several American examples of the period, especially from de Río de la Plata and Brazil.