Abstract
Toward the end of 1927, Luis Quintanilla, a young Mexican attorney, arrived in Rio de Janeiro to take up a post as Second Secretary of the Mexican Embassy. Quintanilla promptly contacted Brazilian artists and writers with a double agenda in mind: to gather information on the emerging modernista movement in Brazil and to promote abroad the vibrant experiments of Mexican post-revolutionary culture. In these endeavors, he came across the pivotal figure of Mário de Andrade. What ensued was a short-lived but lively epistolary exchange where they both attempted to learn and educate each other on their respective artistic milieus. This paper will discuss both sets of letters I uncovered at archives, aiming to show how this correspondence sheds light on issues of influence and reception in the literary relations between Spanish America (Mexico in particular) and Brazil during this key formative period.
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Abstract
Toward the end of 1927, Luis Quintanilla, a young Mexican attorney, arrived in Rio de Janeiro to take up a post as Second Secretary of the Mexican Embassy. Quintanilla promptly contacted Brazilian artists and writers with a double agenda in mind: to gather information on the emerging modernista movement in Brazil and to promote abroad the vibrant experiments of Mexican post-revolutionary culture. In these endeavors, he came across the pivotal figure of Mário de Andrade. What ensued was a short-lived but lively epistolary exchange where they both attempted to learn and educate each other on their respective artistic milieus. This paper will discuss both sets of letters I uncovered at archives, aiming to show how this correspondence sheds light on issues of influence and reception in the literary relations between Spanish America (Mexico in particular) and Brazil during this key formative period.
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