Cultural Fronts in the Americas: a Hemispheric Approach to Public Intellectuals I

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

The 1930s and 1940s witnessed widespread mobilization of writers across the Americas around the political issues of the day. In the context of the United States and American Studies, it has been productive to examine the period through the lens of the concept of a cultural front (Michael Denning), which brings together intellectuals of diverse social backgrounds and political commitments around a variety of common issues. This panel takes the notion of cultural front as the starting point for an examination of the 1930s and 1940s in Brazil and throughout the Americas. Presenters will explore, among other topics, political and aesthetic implications of intercontinental alliances between writers, artists and intellectuals.

Sub Track

• Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Session Organizer

• Luiza Franco Moreira, Binghamton University

Chair

• Carlos A Cortez Minchillo, Dartmouth College

Individual Presentations

• Drummond’s “América,” September 42 - Luiza Franco Moreira, Binghamton University

• Pablo Neruda no Front: da Luta Antifascista à Adesão ao Comunismo - Adriane V Costa

• Intelectuais Antifascistas no Cone Sul: Associativismo, Circulação de Ideias e Debates Culturais - Angela Meirelles de Oliveira

• Transamerican Legacies - Priscilla A Archibald, Roosevelt University

• Gabriela Mistral in Brazil: ideological and physical proximity in the formation of transnational literary alliances - Elizabeth R Horan, Arizona State University

Discussant

• Vagner Camilo, Universidade de São Paulo