Redes intelectuales y proyectos editoriales en América latina

Abstract

Abstract: The aim of this essay is focused on the need to go beyond national barriers in studies on the history of editing. It proposes an ideological articulation between what is usually characterized as americanismo, often simplified as a continentally profiled humanism, or a vague progressive utopianism, which consolidates from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 onwards, and the University Reform of 1918, and becomes institutionalized in parties like the Mexican PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) and the APRA (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance) in Peru; and so-called latinoamericanismo, sustained by so-called dependence and underdevelopment theories, which gave way to an integral concept such as “Third World”, powered by the 1959 Cuban Revolution and was disseminated by numerous organizations throughout our continent-with emblems like Casa de las Américas, in Havana, and the Center for Latin American Studies “Rómulo Gallegos”, in Caracas. On the other hand, a geographical articulation, that goes from the editorial and intellectual labor of Peruvians exiled in Chile in the thirties (especially, Luis Alberto Sánchez), to the editorial projects incarnated by Uruguayans exiled in Venezulea in the sixties and seventies (especially Emir Rodríguez Monegal and Ángel Rama). As two emblematic cases of this double articulation, and taking in consideration their histories and the cultural significance of their catalogues, we will refer to Ercilla´s americanismo and Monte Ávila´s latinoamericanismo.