On the Heels of Juan Moreira: Lessons for the Cultural History of Reading

PMLA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-163
Author(s):  
William G. Acree
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South America ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Real Life ◽  
History Of Reading ◽  
Río De La Plata ◽  
The Real ◽  
La Plata ◽  
History Of

Between November 1879 and January 1880, the argentine author Eduardo Gutierrez published a serialized narrative of the life of Juan Moreira in the Buenos Aires newspaper La Patria Argentina. Titled simply Juan Moreira, the heroic tale of the real-life outlaw went like this: Moreira was a good gaucho gone bad, who fought to preserve his honor against the backdrop of modernizing forces that were transforming life in this part of South America. His string of crimes and ultimate downfall resulted from his unjust persecution by corrupt state officials. The success of the serial surpassed all expectations. The paper's sales skyrocketed, and the melodramatic narrative soon appeared in book form. Enterprising printers produced tens of thousands of authorized and pirated editions to sell in the Rio de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay), making Juan Moreira a leading example of everyday reading for the region's rapidly growing literate population and one of Latin America's pre-twentieth-century bestsellers (Acree, Everyday Reading; Gutiérrez, The Gaucho Juan Moreira).

Poe and His Global Advocates

2018 ◽  
pp. 596-617
Author(s):  
Emron Esplin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South America ◽  
Rio De La Plata ◽  
Río De La Plata ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Global Reputation

This essay explores Edgar Allan Poe’s extraordinary relationships with various literary traditions across the globe, posits that Poe is the most influential US writer on the global literary scene, and argues that Poe’s current global reputation relies at least as much on the radiance of the work of Poe’s literary advocates—many of whom are literary stars in their own right—as it does on the brilliance of Poe’s original works. The article briefly examines Poe’s most famous French advocates (Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Valéry); glosses the work of his advocates throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas; and offers a concise case study of Poe’s influence on and advocacy from three twentieth-century writers from the Río de la Plata region of South America (Quiroga, Borges, and Cortázar). The essay concludes by reading the relationships between Poe and his advocates through the ancient definition of astral or stellar influence.

scholarly journals Histology and gametogenesis inHeleobia piscium(Cochliopidae) from the Multiple Use Reserve “Isla Martín García,” Buenos Aires, Argentina

PeerJ ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. e2548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Maris Martin ◽  
Ana C. Díaz
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Reproductive Cycle ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Rio De La Plata ◽  
Multiple Use ◽  
Río De La Plata ◽  
Early Maturation ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Natural Reserve ◽  
Entre Rios

Heleobia piscium(d’Orbigny, 1835), a member of the Cochliopidae family found only in South America, is distributed from Entre Ríos, Delta del Paraná, and the littoral of the Río de la Plata down as far as to Punta Indio (Buenos Aires), the southernmost limit of the snail’s geographical distribution. To date, little information is available regarding the reproductive cycle of species within this family either in Argentina or throughout South America. The present work analyzed the histology of the reproductive system of the gonochoric speciesH. pisciumand determined the stages oogenesis and spermatogenesis under natural conditions. Specimens ofH. pisciumwere collected in the Multiple-Use Natural Reserve Isla Martín García, located in the Upper Río de la Plata estuary to the south of the mouth of the Uruguay River. The gametogenic cycle in both sexes was found to consist of the following stages: early maturation, maturation, and evacuation. The maturation period was found to extend from January to October and evacuation of the gametes to start in November and end in February (summer in the Southern Hemisphere). The results indicated theH. pisciumexhibit a reproductive cycle without a resting period.

Oceanic Commerce and Platine Merchants, 1796-1806: The Challenge of War

1989 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry W. Cooney
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Real ◽  
La Plata ◽  
The Creation

The creation of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in 1776 by Charles III of Spain and his Edict of Free Commerce two years later brought unprecedented commercial prosperity to the port cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Unlimited trade was now allowed between this region of South America and Spain. Exports—mainly silver from Alto Perú and pastoral products from the pampas—flowed in ever greater volume to the Iberian Peninsula. In return, merchants of the estuary received from Spanish commercial houses European manufactures and luxury items. This trade which spanned the South Atlantic depended upon a complex web of credit and merchant associations between the Old World and the New, and also upon the unobstructed traffic of Spain's merchant marine. In the 1780s and early 1790s with the Empire at peace Platine commerce contributed to both government revenues and the growth of a dynamic immigrant merchant community recently arrived from northern Spain. By 1794 the booming trade of the new viceroyalty justified the creation of the Real Consulado de Buenos Aires, essentially an official merchants guild to regulate the business affairs of this region.

Las letrerías de Antonio Espinosa en la Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos (1790-1802). El caso del «Telégrafo mercantil», primer periódico de Buenos Aires

2013 ◽  
pp. 35-66
Author(s):  
Fabio Eduardo Ares
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Rio De La Plata ◽  
Río De La Plata ◽  
Graphic Arts ◽  
The Real ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Reference Framework ◽  
Del Rio

El presente artículo brinda un panorama sobre la Buenos Aires finicolonial, la Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos y sus ediciones para comprender el marco contextual de la provisión tipográfica. Luego se concentra en las letrerías llegadas desde España en 1790 y, por último, y por intermedio de estas, en la composición del primer periódico porteño: el Telégrafo Mercantil, Rural, Político, Económico e Historiógrafo, un verdadero paradigma del periodismo y las artes gráficas argentinas, que en este caso sirve de modelo para el estudio de los usos tipográficos que realizara la Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos a partir de los caracteres ibéricos cortados por Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros.PALABRAS CLAVETipografía, tipos móviles, imprenta, impresos, ediciones, bibliografía material, Virreinato del Río de la Plata, Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros.This article provides a view of the «finicolonial» Buenos Aires, the Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos (Royal Orphan Children Printing Office) and its editions in order to provide a typing provision reference framework. Then it focuses on Spanish wich arrived at the country by 1790 and finally by them, their use in the making of the first «porteño» newspaper: Telégrafo Mercantil, Rural, Político, Económico e Historiógrafo, a real paradigm of Argentine journalism and graphic arts, in its case used as reference of the study of typing done by the Royal Orphan Children Printing Office using Antonio Espinosa de los Montero’s iberic types.KEYWORDSTypography, movable type, letterpress, antique prints, editions, library science, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros.  

Argentina

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Rio De La Plata ◽  
Río De La Plata ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
La Plata ◽  
The 19Th Century

Argentina emerged as a nation-state in the latter half of the 19th century. However, both popular culture and the official history generally agree that Argentina’s origins lay in the break with Spain in 1810 or even earlier, during the colonial period. The Hispanic monarchy’s dominions in South America were governed by a viceroy based in Lima until the 18th century, when two new divisions were created: the viceroy of New Granada governed the northern half of the continent, and the viceroy of Río de la Plata governed the south. The latter, whose capital was Buenos Aires, included most of what would become Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru. The early-19th-century crisis of the Spanish monarchy created the conditions for the establishment of various nation-states in South America. The viceroyalty of Río de la Plata disintegrated into small power units, and a series of civil wars broke out. Paraguay would be the first independent entity to emerge (1811), followed by Bolivia (1824) and Uruguay (1828). The rest of the fourteen states-provinces of the old viceroyalty continued fighting until 1862, at which point the Argentine Republic was created. The period starting in 1862 is referred to in Argentine national historiography as the period of “national organization,” during which the state gave substance to its sovereignty and institutions. Since the colonial period, agriculture had been the principal productive sector. Toward the end of the 19th century, cattle and grains became the principal and essentially the only exports, and the engine of its growth. Some areas of the country, most especially the city of Buenos Aires and the areas under its influence, underwent rapid demographic and economic growth, which gave Buenos Aires, the country’s major port, a disproportionate role in the territory as a whole, making it the country’s critical center. In the late 19th century, state construction coincided with an important series of transformations, including the forcible incorporation of Patagonia and Gran Chaco, which until then had been under the control of indigenous peoples (“Desert Campaign,” 1878–1885), the takeoff of agricultural exports, infrastructure construction (ports, railways, etc.), rapid urbanization, and, especially, the massive arrival of immigrants, most of them from Europe, who would play an active role throughout this transformative process.

From Colonial Performers to Actors of ‘American Liberty’: Black Artists in Bourbon and Revolutionary Río de la Plata

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-289
Author(s):  
Alex Borucki
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Rio De La Plata ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
Río De La Plata ◽  
Black Artists ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military

From the late eighteenth century through most of the nineteenth, Buenos Aires and Montevideo were hosts to a joint theatrical circuit characterized by the regular comings and goings of impresarios, artisans, musicians, and actors between the two cities. The military conflicts that shaped this period actually encouraged these connections, as they stimulated both exile and repatriation between one locale and the other. Africans, and particularly their Rioplatense descendants, were an integral part of popular entertainment circuits in Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Some of the first Argentinean historians of theater and music, among them Vicente Gesualdo and Teodoro Klein, were aware of this connection and included in their initial scholarship links that connect the history of free and enslaved Afro-descendants to the early theater of Río de la Plata.

«Un Américain (imaginaire) à Paris » Réponse à Carmen Bernand

2003 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 497-512
Author(s):  
Stuart B. Schwartz ◽  
Frank Salomon
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Nous Avons ◽  
Rio De La Plata ◽  
Río De La Plata ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
La Plata ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hautes Terres

Deux notes critiquesdeThe Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, vol. III,South America[CHNPA] ont été publiées dans lesAnnales:l’une, de Luiz Felipe de Alencastro, relative à l’histoire des peuples natifs du Brésil; l’autre, de Carmen Bernand, portant sur les hautes terres d’Amérique du Sud et le Rio de la Plata. Nous ne dirons (quasiment) rien des commentaires de L. F. de Alencastro : ses critiques et remarques offrent une autre interprétation que celle présentée dans les chapitres consacrés au Brésil. Ainsi notre propos s’adressera-t-il uniquement au point de vue critique de C. Bernand, puisque son article conteste les orientations de l’entreprise éditoriale que nous avons dirigée, offrant une vision alternative de l’américanisme qui y est présenté, qu’elle complète par des perspectives de recherche.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Alan Erbig
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
South America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Río De La Plata ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
La Plata ◽  
History Of ◽  
Trading Networks

The introduction considers how autonomous Indigenous peoples in South America responded to the drawing of interimperial borders through their lands. Bringing together borderlands studies and histories of cartography, it argues that imperial border making transformed regional territorialities precisely because Native peoples engaged such efforts. In the Río de la Plata, Portugal’s and Spain’s invention of a border was an attempt to circumvent the territorial authority exercised by Indigenous peoples known Charrúas and Minuanes, whom members of the Luso-Hispanic boundary commissions routinely evaded as they traversed the region. Native responses to subsequent colonial efforts to materialize the imagined border derived from their own territorialities, and some Indigenous leaders leveraged imperial border making to expand their own kinship, tributary, and trading networks. Drawing upon hundreds of fragmented manuscripts dispersed in archives across three continents and representing them together via geographic information systems (GIS), this introduction centers Native ground and actions in the history of the border.

scholarly journals From texts to readers: Literary criticism, sociology of practice and cultural history

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (62) ◽  
pp. 741-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Chartier
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
History Of Reading ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This essay is devoted to two questions. Firstly, it analyzes how reading was conceived by literary criticism, sociology of practices, and cultural history in the end of the twentieth century. What is at stake here is the conceptualization of the relationship between the text and the reader and the process through which meaning is constructed. Secondly, it recalls some fundamental questions raised by the history of reading, not for their own sake but because they can suggest some approaches for the analysis of reading practices in modern times.

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