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'High-Speed Enlightenment.’ Latin American literature and the new medium of periodicals
- Author(s):
- Victor Goldgel-Carballo (see profile)
- Date:
- 2012
- Group(s):
- LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian, LLC 19th-Century Latin American
- Subject(s):
- Latin American literature, Latin Americans--Social life and customs, Sixteenth century, Seventeenth century, Eighteenth century
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Periodicals, Enlightenment, Media history, Print culture, Colonial Latin American literature and culture
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6WW2X
- Abstract:
- Drawing upon studies of media history and print culture, this article analyzes the relationship among early-nineteenth-century Latin American periodicals, literary institutions, and new experiences of time and history. Framing these periodicals as a new medium which boomed during and immediately after the wars of independence, it underscores their impact upon forms of reading and writing, as well as their importance for concurrent and later debates on the norms governing literary institutions, including the status and definition of literature. Ultimately, this new medium gave rise not only to a new prose which was described as accelerated and therefore ‘modern’ but also to new forms of discursive authority and to an unprecedented legitimacy for literary genres such as the novel. As such, this article departs from the nation-building paradigms that have governed studies of the Latin American nineteenth century, establishing instead a dialog between periodicals of the whole region, with an emphasis on Cuba, Chile, and the Rio de la Plata.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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