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Revista Telar — 2025-12-19

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Communist Poetics and the Soviet Archive in Latin American Literature (20th-21st Centuries): Processes of Appropriation, Reading, and Cultural Translation

María Fernanda Alle — 2025-12-19

Mujer Diccit: La voz de la mujer según Fina Warschaver

Carina González — 2025-12-19

A Regionalist Writer in the Kolkhoz: Luis Gudiño Kramer’s Journey to the Soviet Union in 1953

María Fernanda Alle — 2025-12-19

In November 1953, the writer and journalist from Entre Ríos, based in Santa Fe, Luis Gudiño Kramer, traveled to the USSR as part of the first cultural delegation of Argentinians invited by the Soviet Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. The following year, he published a chronicle of his visit to the Ukrainian kolkhoz “Stalin” in Al encuentro de dos culturas, a book that compiles the testimonies of the delegation’s members. Based on this trip and his account, which has not been considered in the scarce critical studies on the autor, and other aspects of his intellectual journey, I examine Gudiño Kramer’s ties to the social and cultural circles of Argentine communism. Secondly, I analyze the comparative perspective he develops in his testimony between labor practices in the kolkhoz and the reality of rural life in Santa Fe, linking agricultural and livestock techniques with a broader cultural and educational project. Lastly, I explore the impact of this experience on his narrative work, which invites a reflection on the national and international projection of regionalism within the broader

context of debates on national culture taking place in the 1950s.

Communist genders. Enrique Amorim, Héctor Agosti and masculinities

Laura Prado Acosta — 2025-12-19

According with Héctor Agosti´s biography, written by his friend Samuel Schneider, the last thing that Agosti wrote in his life, before he died en 1984, was a letter to his friend Enrique Amorim (who had died many years before en 1960). In this letter Agosti, the most important intelectual of argentian communism, made a evaluation, or balance, about the path of the communis culture. More precisely about the bond that communist member establish with the cultural field. That letter was also part of tha last editorial proyect propel by Agosti: the publish of the collection of epistols between the friends Agosti and Amorim. This article inquires the interactions between the communist cultural life y and the world of masculine affectivity that was part of that space of communist activism.

Una letra familiar by Irene Gruss. Scenes from communist childhood

Agustina Catalano — 2025-12-19

This article analyzes the configuration of a childhood-youth lived within a communist family, in the novel Una letra familiar, published in 2007 by the Argentine writer Irene Gruss. From the first-person voice of a girl who becomes an adult as she narrates, the text shows the ups and downs and contradictions that arise around the education of communist children, party militancy, the place of women and the sacrificial mandate; and it does so not only through intimate remembrance but also through sharp criticism, humor, irony, and play. This reading will focus on three zones that stand out insistently in the novel: inheritance, ideological but also affective, models of motherhood that come into tension, and writing, linked to one's own desire and the question of what to do / what to be in adulthood.

Communism as an island. The Soviet Union, Hollywood and Cultural Appropriations during Cold War

Martín Baña — 2025-12-19

This article addresses the way in which a mythologised view of the communist experience has exerted an enormous influence not only on popular culture but also on the academic field. In particular, it critically reviews the widespread idea that the communist world in general and the Soviet Union in particular were for much of their existence enclosed behind an ‘iron curtain’, to use perhaps the most famous but not the only metaphor. This idea took for granted the territory's iron isolation from the rest of the world and characterised the Soviet Union as a closed, autarkic and monotonous space. Thanks to access to declassified Soviet archives and the incorporation of new theoretical perspectives within specialised historiography, this image has been significantly modified. However, its impact has not been strongly manifested in specialised studies in our region. In this sense, the text sets out to analyse a series of cases linked to cinema art in order to revise the myth of communism as an island, based on a review of the links between the Soviet Union and Hollywood during Cold War.

Soviet Glasnost in Cuban Culture in the 1980s

Ignacio Iriarte — 2025-12-21

The purpose of this paper is to describe the reception of the Soviet glasnost in Cuban culture in the second half of the 1980s. In the first part, an evaluation of some of the main contributions on the subject is made. From this, it is proposed as hypothesis that the changes that take place in the Cuban culture of the 80's respond to endogenous causes, but they go in many aspects in tune with the Soviet changes, something that the Cuban intellectuals make explicit through the translation and appropriation of concepts and ideas from the USSR. To demonstrate this, this paper proposes a periodization of perestroika and then analyzes some reflections on journalism in general and the reception that Cuban cultural magazines make of glasnost.

On the Edge: Juan Villoro's and Liliana Villanueva's Travelogues in Berlin Divided

Irina Garbatzky — 2025-12-19

The transaction between the history of Berlin and Latin American literature has proved stimulating and profitable, among other things, because of the latter's capacity to process heterogeneity (linguistic, cultural, historical) and because of the representations of modernity and its endings that Berlin's urban fabric condenses. Berlin is projected onto a wide area of contemporary Latin American literature as a sign, referent and stimulating city, based on the imaginaries produced by the Cold War and the ruins of successive wars and their awareness of history.

Thus, the stories set in Berlin at the end of the twentieth century written by Latin American authors would encourage the exploration of other ways of understanding the border that marked that city as the epicentre of the Cold War. A particular way of elaborating and transmitting the experience not only of a division, but, at the same time, the series of passages, confusions and mixtures that moved between East and West, the old and the new order, but also in the immigrant constellation that marked the metropolis during the years before and after reunification. This articles’ hypothesis suggests that some Berlin narratives, especially those dealing with the particular time frame of the end of the twentieth century, allow us to understand and make sense of the process of reconstructing a fragmented identity, as divided as it was connected, as splintered as it was multicultural; as if the experience of the East and the Cold War, with those intervals and contact zones, were a mark reappropriated by these writings within their own tradition. The article analyses from this framework, linked in a general way to border theories, two travel narratives: Otoño alemán (2019), by the argentinian writer Liliana Villanueva and ‘Berlín, capital del fin del mundo’ (1999) and ‘Berlín, un mapa para perderse’ (2005) by the mexican Juan Villoro.

Fogwill in the land of the Soviets: a satire without morals

Marcelo Bonini — 2025-12-19

This essay postulates that Fogwill's Un guion para Artkino, in addition to a parodic line analyzed by other works -Rodrigo Montenegro (2020), Ricardo Srafacce (2023) - contains another, satirical, one that reveals the furious laughter that drives various areas of this narrative and here constitutes its distinguishing feature. The novel imagines a counterfactual, Stalinist Argentina between utopia, dystopia, and uchronia. When a change of fortune occurs to its protagonist, “the despicable Mr. Fogwill”, he will come into conflict with the caricature of Stalinism constructed by the novel, whose depiction moves away from a liberal critique of totalitarianism and allows Fogwill to go beyond it to reflect on aesthetics and literary work under different models of social organization

Translation Exercises and the Russian-Soviet Constellation in Sergio Raimondi’s Lexikón

Érica Brasca — 2025-12-19

This paper examines the ideas of translation and archive, based on the reading of Sergio Raimondi’s book of poems Lexikón (2022). These two ideas are traversed by a conception of language that extends throughout Raimondi’s work: each language encodes particular ways of perceiving reality, shaped by the historical, social, and cultural experiences of those who speak it. On the one hand, it is postulated that the absence of translation in the titles of the poems offers an exercise in translation, the purpose of which could be the development of an awareness of the language and the reader's role in the activation of meaning. On the other hand, the paper explores a Russian-Soviet constellation present in certain poems, which recreates cultural debates specific to its historical context and operates on multiple scales.

Elude the nation, listen to Chernobyl: Abel Fernández Larrea and his Absolut Röntgen

Macarena Farías — 2025-12-19

This paper reviews the place of Abel Fernández Larrea in view of his belonging to Generation Zero and the way in which he treats the trope of ostalgie in his book Absolut Röntgen. This is done by assessing the ways this Soviet nostalgia has been portrait in the Cuban narrative after the fall of the wall and in other post-2000 narratives, seeking to shed some light on the distinct way in which Larrea incorporates his Cuban identity in his apparently de-Cubanized writing about the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Borderline Cosmopolitanism and Imaginations of the East in Cuaderno de Prypiat

Ismael García — 2025-12-19

Eastern Europe (as the “other” of Western Europe) is an imaginary spatiality that enables the deconstruction of modern notions of homogenization. These imaginations allow Latin America (with its heterogeneous tradition linked to procedures such as translation or the appropriation of foreign models) to find a way to think itself from a drive for other worlds and for new cosmopolitanisms. Thus, we can understand cosmopolitanism as a way of relating by linking peripheries. A certain exoticism associated with the idea of the East triggers a series of imaginations linked to possible worlds, to indeterminacy and the undecidable. These imaginations assemble, dismantle and expand the known world, and lead us to the question of what kind of worlds it makes possible. It is from this perspective that we propose to analyze the novel Cuaderno de Pripyat (2012), written by Carlos Ríos. In this particular case, the question should be formulated as follows: what world does the “normal accident” of the nuclear power plant produce? We believe that the Chernobyl catastrophe does not obliterate neither experience or narratives, but rather exasperates them and links them on the basis of a “Russian doll” or collage structure that allows us to tell non-individual experiences.

Tribute to Raúl González Tuñón

María Fernanda Alle — 2025-12-19

“Poetry Exists Only Within a Dynamic of Transformation.” An Interview with Sergio Raimondi on the Resonances of Eastern Traditions in Lexikón

Érica Brasca — 2025-12-19

Dalmaroni, Miguel (dir.) (2025). Investigación y literatura. Proyectos, tradiciones y problemas. Santa Fe: Universidad Nacional del Litoral. 352 pp.

Mariana Catalin — 2025-12-19

Colanzi, Liliana y Debra, Castillo (eds.) (2025). Regiones Inquietantes: literatura de horror en Latinoamérica. Minnesota: Hispanic Issues On Line (HIOL), Vol. 34, University of Minnesota. Pp. 357.

Lucía Terán Vidal — 2025-12-19

Piglia, Ricardo (2024). Trece prólogos. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica. Pp. 110

Yamila Martínez Pandiani — 2025-12-19

Parada, Alejandro (2023). Bajo el signo de la Bibliotecología. Ensayos bibliotecarios desde la posmodernidad tardía. Villa María: Eduvim. Pp.192.

Carlos Gustavo Simón — 2025-12-19

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