INVESTIGADORES
ROGERS Geraldine
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Emerging printed culture in the early 20th Century South America: new writers and readers in the Argentinean weekly magazine Caras y Caretas
Autor/es:
GERALDINE ROGERS
Lugar:
Helsinki
Reunión:
Congreso; 18th Annual Conference, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) ?Book Culture from Below?; 2010
Institución organizadora:
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
Resumen:
During the first decades of the 20TH Century, an important transformation took place as regards printed culture in Argentina. The relations among dominant and subordinate groups were modified by the arrival of European immigration, urban development, the conformation of a middle class and literacy campaigns, thus allowing the emergence of democratizing features in culture. The weekly magazine Caras y Caretas (1898-1939) is key to the understanding of the transformations of that period. It belonged to the miscellaneous magazine system which was inspired by similar publications from Europe and USA. As a modern enterprise, it collaborated with the appearance of a new layer of producers and favored literary professionalization. Here I summarize why this magazine is central if we want to understand the number of modernizing transformations to the printed culture in the first decades of the 20th Century in Argentina, a process that involved a clear democratizing and mercantile tendency, as well as the emergence of new social actors and new forms of cultural production and circulation.