Hispanoamérica y Brasil: Encuentros, desencuentros, vacíos

Abstract

In this contribution, the shared articulation of a Latin-American space from the multiplicity of its cultural areas is approached through Fernando Pessoa’s metaphor of heteronomy. Relations between Hispanic-America and Brazil are especially taken into account. From a structural outlook, both cultural blocks have productive symbolic nucleus which articulate themselves by integrating tensions of our culture in its peripheral conditionings. Thus, the construction of an emergent alternative space during the colonial period, as well as the national homogeneity esthetics and the regional-cosmopolitan tensions of modernization give them a sense of “unity” –even if they also show their divergences. Today, besides exploring the effect of media on these links, it is interesting to approach –maintaining an overall viewpoint– concrete historical relations established by single travelers and intellectuals such as Gabriela Mistral.