1937: imaginarios bélicos, voces y escrituras a través del mar

Abstract

This article aims at proposing a research on the Latin-American literary production which takes place within the context of the Spanish Civil War in 1937. During the year previously mentioned, three political and cultural aspect of the war are interwoven. These ones have an effect on the Latin-American writings: the report of the increasing warlike violence, guidelines about the role of the intellectual which are established in writers’ conferences and the act of remembering when tribute is paid to the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca in his first disappearance anniversary. Latin-American writings related to the war took place in several cities of Europe and Latin America, which worked as truly “poles of assembly”. This research reveals the fact that it is not possible to define the production, the hegemony and the flow of the symbolic goods according to the rationale of the national cultural fields and it establishes that those writings strengthened the imaginary of the poet who was in the war in order to make up available files.