ABSTRACT
This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically, it analyzes the role of Ibero-American mediators in the institutionalization of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the first half of the 20th century by means of two institutional networks: PEN (the non-governmental writer’s association) and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (predecessor to UNESCO). Attempting to combine cultural and global history, sociology, and literary studies, the book uses an analytical focus on intercultural networks and cultural transfer to investigate the multiple activities and roles that these mediators and cultural organizations set in motion. Literature has traditionally studied major figures and important centers of cultural production, but other regions and localities also played a crucial role in the development of intellectual cooperation. This book reappraises the place of Ibero-America in international cultural relations and retrieves the lost history of key secondary actors. The book will appeal to scholars from international relations, global and cultural history, sociology, postcolonial Studies, world and comparative literature, and New Hispanisms.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429299407, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|62 pages
Politics of the Spirit
part II|110 pages
Cultural Organizations
chapter 4|25 pages
A Representative Organization?
chapter 5|18 pages
The 1933 Dubrovnik PEN Congress, or How to Deal with the Present That Was Already History
chapter 7|17 pages
The 1936 Meetings of the PEN Clubs and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation in Buenos Aires
chapter 8|29 pages
Barcelona on the International Map of Modernity
part III|141 pages
Cultural Mediators