“Si me quieres escribir…” Mujeres en la prensa cultural antifascista (Argentina, 1930-1940)

  • Bertúa, Paula
Publication date
January 2015

Abstract

In the mid-1930s, the responsibility of intellectuals regarding the international political situation became a topic of particular interest in Argentina’s artistic and literary community. The great European political developments —the rise of fascism, the Spanish Civil War, and the Second World War— directly infl uenced the Argentine cultural fi eld. This new historical confi-guration generated a redefi nition of the intellectual as a subject of political intervention. Women were not immune to this process: female artists and writers began to participate in new ways in the public realm, whether in response to the international situation or by creating new expressive languages to intervene in cultural debates. In this paper we discuss some o...

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