Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-america - 82 (1st edition.)

This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically, it analyzesthe role of Iberoamerican mediators in theinstitutionalization of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in thefirst half of the 20th century by means of two institutionalnetworks: PEN (the non-governmental writer's association), and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (predecessor to UNESCO). Attempting to combine cultural and global history, sociology and literary studies, the book uses an analytical focus on intercultural networks and cultural transfer to investigate the multiple activities and roles that these mediators and cultural organizations set in motion. Literature has traditionally studied major figures and important centers of cultural production, but other regions and localities also played a crucial role in the development of intellectual cooperation. This book reappraises the place of Iberoamerica in international cultural relations and retrieves the lost history of key secondary actors. The book will appeal to scholars from International Relations, Global and Cultural History, Sociology, Postcolonial Studies, World and Comparative Literature and New Hispanisms.