ProjectMythological Thinking and the building of transnational communities in cultural Journals: entanglements between…
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Title:
Mythological Thinking and the building of transnational communities in cultural Journals: entanglements between politics, anthropology and esthetics
Duration:
01/04/2025 to 31/03/2029
Abstract / short description:
The sub-project will pursue the objectives of the FOR with a special media-specific focus on cultural periodicals in the period from 1917- 1936. It will work out the networks of different cultural mediators and their ideas of community in the context of post-revolutionary Mexico that can be observed in this medium, but also study the reception, appropriation and transformation of new models of transantional community-building discussed in Mexico, but also in other Latin
American countries. In a first step, we will analyze "El Maestro Revista de cultura nacional" (1.1921-17.1923), edited by José Vasconcelos. This magazine allows not only to study the intersections between politics, anthropology and aesthetics within a project of mythical community building that was exemplary for the Mexican context after the revolution, but which also had an wide impact on Latin America in general. "El Maestro" also served as a hub for the dissemination of the ideas of the Clarté group founded by Barbusse in France immediately after the First World War, which not only quickly found offshoots in various contexts in Europe, but also led to the founding of corresponding groups and an entire series of journals in Latin America. We will investigate tof Latin American this serie of "Claridades" (in Peru, Chile and Argentina) focusing on the question if there can be identified programmatic similarities and common transnational discourse traditions, or how and why context-specific discourse traditions developed in each of these journals. Thirdly, projects of transnational community building under the sign of Indoamerica will be examined, focussing on José Mariátegui's cultural magazine "Amauta" and the "Editorial/Boletín Titikaka", also published in Peru, as well as a series of more political journals entitled "Indoamérica" in Mexico and Buenos Aires. Beyond the reconstruction of discourses and historical ideas, we will explore the aesthetic dimension of the journals taking into account particularly the analysis of the visual language and the circulation of concrete images. Methodologically we install a data-based workflow and persue a mixed-methods approach in which quantitative and statistical
procedures (such as topic modelling) are intertwined with (post)hermeneutic qualitative interpretations.
American countries. In a first step, we will analyze "El Maestro Revista de cultura nacional" (1.1921-17.1923), edited by José Vasconcelos. This magazine allows not only to study the intersections between politics, anthropology and aesthetics within a project of mythical community building that was exemplary for the Mexican context after the revolution, but which also had an wide impact on Latin America in general. "El Maestro" also served as a hub for the dissemination of the ideas of the Clarté group founded by Barbusse in France immediately after the First World War, which not only quickly found offshoots in various contexts in Europe, but also led to the founding of corresponding groups and an entire series of journals in Latin America. We will investigate tof Latin American this serie of "Claridades" (in Peru, Chile and Argentina) focusing on the question if there can be identified programmatic similarities and common transnational discourse traditions, or how and why context-specific discourse traditions developed in each of these journals. Thirdly, projects of transnational community building under the sign of Indoamerica will be examined, focussing on José Mariátegui's cultural magazine "Amauta" and the "Editorial/Boletín Titikaka", also published in Peru, as well as a series of more political journals entitled "Indoamérica" in Mexico and Buenos Aires. Beyond the reconstruction of discourses and historical ideas, we will explore the aesthetic dimension of the journals taking into account particularly the analysis of the visual language and the circulation of concrete images. Methodologically we install a data-based workflow and persue a mixed-methods approach in which quantitative and statistical
procedures (such as topic modelling) are intertwined with (post)hermeneutic qualitative interpretations.
Keywords:
LIteraturwissenschaft
Romanistik
Involved staff
Managers
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Humanities
Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Humanities
Local organizational units
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of Modern Languages
Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities
Funders
Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany