Pasión de juventudes: la Reforma Universitaria y la emergencia de la literatura latinoamericana

Authors

Fernando Degiovanni, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-26-2019

Abstract

Resumen: Este artículo analiza el rol que tuvo la Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA), y especialmente la actividad cultural de los exiliados apristas, en la emergencia de un latinoamericanismo literario inspirado en los ideales de la Reforma Universitaria. En particular, explora la incidencia del crítico peruano Luis Alberto Sánchez, responsable de la labor propagandística del APRA en el exterior y autor de la primera historia literaria latinoamericana publicada en castellano, en la articulación de la disciplina en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Su Historia de la literatura americana (1937) no solo cuestionará el proyecto latinoamericanista esbozado por Pedro Henríquez Ureñaen la década de 1920, sino que promoverá una aproximación vitalista y militante al mismo anclado en la lectura que el Aprismo hizo del legado de la Reforma.

Summary: This article analyzes the role of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA), and especially the cultural projects developed by exiled apristas, in the emergence of a literary Latin Americanism inspired by the ideals of the University Reform movement. In particular, it explores how Peruvian literary critic Luis Alberto Sánchez, responsible of APRA’s propaganda machine overseas and author of the first history of Latin American literature ever published in Spanish, shaped the discipline in the first half of the twentieth century. His Historia de la literatura americana (1937) not only questions the way literary Latin Americanism had been defined by Pedro Henríquez Ureña in the 1920s, but also promotes a vitalist and militant approach to it anchored in APRA’s reading of the University Reform movement’s legacy.

Comments

This article was originally published in Cuadernos de Historia, available at https://doi.org/10.53872/2422.7544.n21.24107

This work is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Alternative title: Passion of Youth: The University Reform movement and the emergence of Latin American literature