Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

This article uses an exilic legacy to enhance reflexivity on how a past event may be used for intervening in an ongoing present. The text analyzes the appropriation that Goretti Sanmartín –philologist and mayor of Santiago de Compostela– made of the speech pronounced in Buenos Aires in July 1948 by republican exile Alfonso Daniel R. Castelao. In 2023, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Castelao’s speech, Sanmartín instituted an annual celebration aimed at highlighting the civil society of Santiago de Compostela, a city drowned by processes of gentrification and over-tourism. This original appropriation of Castelao’s legacy differs from the abuse of decontextualized quotes, conceived of as self-evident, to which the exile’s legacy has been repeatedly subjected. The delicate attention required by a particularly ephemeral part of the exilic legacy, such as oral literature, is at the kernel of the article’s effort to connect the two discourses with the respective contexts of their enunciation.

This article examines the unsuccessful attempts made by a group of Catalan and Spanish exiled composers (Roberto Gerhard, Baltasar Samper, Josep Valls and Óscar Esplá) to reconstruct the Spanish and Catalan delegations of the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) in exile, during the second half of the 1940s. This episode is enormously valuable and revealing if we analyze it, as the article does, within two historical contexts: firstly, the history of the ISCM in Spain, and in particular the efforts that the republican government made to ensure that its country was still present at ISCM festivals during the Civil War, in an attempt to guarantee that the cultural legitimacy of Spain remained on the exile side, at a time when the Franco regime threatened to appropriate it. Secondly, we can observe parallels between this correspondence and other episodes of the Spanish musical exile in the period 1945-1950 which suggests that Spanish and Catalan music also engaged in a generalized reorientation of their strategies of resistance/adaptation

This issue presents a first approach to the study of open and simultaneous presidential primary elections (PAS) carried out in several Latin American countries during the last 25 years. It includes brief articles that offer different approaches to presidential primary elections in several Latin American countries, with an analysis of their particularities, adaptations, exceptions and regulations, within the different contexts in which this system has been incorporated and implemented throughout multiple electoral processes.

Iberoamerican reviews

The article explores the concept of psychiatry as a discipline that underpinned the work of Catalan republican exile Josep Solanes (1909-1991) over six decades of professional activity. In a constant dialogue with philosophy, anthropology, and literature, Solanes theorized and put into clinical practice a psychiatry that aspired to cure mental pathologies and, in doing that, transform society. The article traces his active commitment in the 1920s and 1930s to the artistic, political, and medical avant-gardes that advocated a post-bourgeois Catalonia and Spain; his revolutionary vision of a new psychiatry for a new man and society during the Spanish civil war; his pioneering work in the 1940s, already in exile in France, on exile as a mental pathology; in Venezuela from the 1950s onwards, the development of an emancipatory psychiatry through the conception of occupational therapy as an opportunity for the healing of the psychiatric institution itself. The article closes by showing how, in the last stage of Solanes’ career, focused on the critique of technological rationality, exile emerges as a privileged space of enunciation and –as shown in his posthumous work Los nombres del exilio (1993)– it is the exile, as a subject freed from their national bonds, who can aspire to becoming disalienated

This article analyses the representation of the translator and the process of translation in the novel The Riddle of Qaf (2004), by the Brazilian author Alberto Mussa. The novel is based on the work carried out by the author to translate The Suspended Odes (2006), created in the 6th century by the best Bedouin poets. Thus, the aim of the article is to understand how the protagonist of the novel, also called Mussa, undertakes a creative translation of one of the poems. The work will be analysed from different perspectives: the importance of migrant literature, the growing centrality of the translator in fiction, the study of motifs related to translation in contemporary literature and the blurring of the boundaries between authorship and translation.

Josep Renau’s essayistic work during his long exile in Mexico and Germany allows us to approach the intellectual trajectory of the photomontage artist from a new perspective. Beyond his work as a visual artist, Renau found in the essay the ideal medium through which, starting from the political and cultural principles developed during the Popular Front period of the Spanish Civil War, he could negotiate with the new conditions that the Cold War imposed on the lives of exiles. His intellectual practice –mediated by the changing political conditions of exile, by the evolution of artistic and cultural discourses, and by the complex realities of his militancy in the PCE– allowed Renau to carry out an interesting analysis of the period of the cultural Cold War, remaining always faithful to the principles of cultural Popular Frontism.

Introduction to the dossier

This forum addresses a topic that is not only highly relevant in academic discussions but also crucial for the proper functioning of democracies: the representation of women in Latin American democracies. We approach this issue from two perspectives. First, we analyze the advances and challenges of descriptive representation, specifically focusing on the presence of women in parliaments. Second, we examine substantive representation: how the varying presence of women in parliaments impacts the attention given to women's interests. The papers highlight a significant and growing, yet still insufficient, presence of women in Latin American parliaments and their leadership roles, emphasizing the importance of affirmative mechanisms. It also demonstrates the role of women as a group in advocating for laws on various issues that concern women, extending beyond what are typically considered ‘feminist’ issues