The Latin American Union and the Renewal Bulletin:: intellectual networks and cultural magazines in the 1920s

This book takes place during the 1920s and focuses on the formation and trajectory of the "Latin American Union", an anti-imperialist and Latin American association whose essential purpose was to generate public opinion favorable to the cultural, political and economic unity of the countries of the region, trying to revive the old Bolivarian ideal. Examines one of the key instruments used by the members who later formed this organization: Renovación, Bulletin of Ideas, Books and Magazines of Latin America, a journalistic undertaking that preceded the founding of the unionist entity and became its means of dissemination to from 1925, accompanying its evolution until its disappearance in 1930.

 Concerned with providing Latin America with theoretical tools that would base its existence on an imaginary level, the Union created, through the Bulletin, a transnational intellectual network where numerous students and intellectuals who were active outside the political parties debated the present and future of Latin America. the region. The author offers readers a thorough analysis of the construction of a network, recovering the richness and diversity of cultural magazines that established bridges between literature, social and philosophical thought, and political reflection.