Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This essay by Professor Raúl Antelo addresses the issue of place in a theory concerning the marginalizing of Latin American culture, more specifically within South America. This culture has always been viewed through a prism of exclusion and [...]

Through comparative analysis, Silviano Santiago examines the “place” of literary discourse in Latin America. He describes a process of “acculturation” that began in the colonial era and has left the trace of “defamiliarization.” [...]

Mário de Andrade notes the nuances in the style of this Brazilian author who lives in Argentina—where he was forced into exile by the Estado Novo—and recognizes his ability to discuss a wide range of subjects with admirable self-possession and [...]

Antonio Candido’s review is based on the ideas expressed by Brazilian intellectuals concerning Latin America. He focuses on the period 1880–1920 that saw the development of a systematized approach to analyzing the subcontinent as it evolved into [...]

Evar Méndez’s text brings about a critical balance of the Martin Fierro journal’s actions and what they meant to the Argentinean literary renewal throughout its entire publication span. He points out that the journal gathered, from its founding [...]

This article reports on the publication of the book Genio y figura de Roberto J. Payró [The Genius and Figure of Roberto J. Payró] written by Eduardo González Lanuza. The author points out the imbalance between the [...]

Aldo Pellegrini points out that poetry constitutes an anti-conventional language par excellence; he believes it is necessary to break with verbal preconceptions when the intensity of the content calls for shades of meaning beyond convention. In this [...]

The relationship that the critic Aldo Pellegrini established with the poet Olivierio Girondo, whom he met in 1948, stands out in this text. Pellegrini relates the closeness that developed between the surrealist group and the Poesía Buenos Aires [ [...]

This article by Adriana Valdés is a continuation of “Escritura y silenciamiento” (Writing and Silencing) published in 1977 in Revista Mensaje, a text that would have been unthinkable at the height of the repression and censorship [...]

In this text Nelly Richard identifies some of Walter Benjamin’s ideas that, in her opinion, are relevant to works produced in Chile during the military dictatorship (1973–90) and the start of what was known as the “democratic [...]