Collection(s) : Regards croisés sur le monde anglophone
Paru le 09/07/2020 | Broché XIV-262 pages
Public motivé
Born from colonialist and postcolonialist affronts and affinities with European and North American traditions, as well as from specific nationalistic needs, cultural as well as political, Latin American literary journalism is arguably a direct product and process of a people's volatile past. Be it a specific reportaje, testimonio or crónica, these reportages stoke more often than calm the political and social unrest frequently associated with the development of South and Central America. Practised by a number of prominent writers discussed here - Gabriel García Márquez, Rodolfo Walsh, Elena Poniatowska, Euclides da Cunha, Miguel Barnet, Antonio Callado, Leila Guerriero, Mário Neves, Judith Torrea, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Patricia Campos Mello, Mario Vargas Llosa, as well as Ryszard Kapuscinski and Charles Bowden - Latin American literary journalism documents the continents' many civil wars, revolutions, dictatorships, pogroms and cartel turf wars in the hope that readers today will learn from the past and avoid repeating it.
Aleksandra Wiktorowska received her PhD in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities from the Universitat de Barcelona in 2014. In addition to being a literary agent and an academic scholar, she is a translator from Spanish to Polish with nine novels to her credit.
Margarita Navarro Pérez holds a PhD in English Cultural Studies from the Universidad de Murcia (2015) and currently works as a lecturer and researcher in the Languages Department of the Centro Universitario de la Defensa. Her research interests include questions of national identity and the impact of media in the constructions of cultural identities.
Mateus Yuri Passos is Professor at the Graduate Program in Social Communication of the Universidade Metodista de São Paulo in Brazil, and editor of the journal Communicação & Sociedade.
