IN3’s Global Literary Studies Research Lab (GlobaLS) is pleased to invite you to the Seminar: «Spanish and Belgian Modernisms: The Role of Literary Magazines and Modernist Networks in the Transnational Circulation of Texts (1890–1939)», given by Christina Bezari, senior post-doctoral fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
The seminar will be held, virtually and in person, on Thursday, November 30 at 12:00 h (CET) in Room 102 of the Research Hub (Building C).
Venue
Research Hub (Building C - Room 102)
Rambla del Poblenou, 154
08019 Barcelona
Espanya
When
30/11/2023 12.00h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, IN3's Global Literary Studies Research Lab (GlobaLS)
Program
Summary
This paper proposes a comparative study of Spanish and Belgian modernisms and sheds light on literary magazines and transnational networks that shaped early twentieth-century literary culture. The first objective of this seminar is to examine a number of Belgian and Spanish magazines that described modernism as a cross-cultural movement with far-reaching influences. Starting with the literary magazines Lumière (1919–1923) and Ça Ira (1920–1923), this paper focuses on the circulation of Spanish literature in Belgium during the interwar period and sets out to recover translations that have often gone unnoticed, and which prove the active participation of Spanish writers and poets in the Belgian literary scene. In the same vein, the magazines Cosmopolis (1919–1922) and La Gaceta Literaria (1927–1932) will be considered as the Spanish counterparts to the Belgian monthlies Lumière and Ça Ira. By exploring these magazines, this paper aims to shed light on the circulation of Belgian literature in Spain and the emergence of a modernist aesthetic in the work of Belgian writers and poets such as Odilon-Jean Périer and Irène Hamoir. The second objective of this seminar is to examine the role of two Brussels-based literary circles, La Lanterne Sourde (1921–1931) and the Amitiés hispano-belgo-américaines (1932–1936), which encouraged international collaboration and contributed to the circulation of modernist works. By examining the contribution of these circles to the literary culture of the time, this paper aims to challenge the center vs. periphery dichotomy and initiate a shift in our thinking regarding the impact of Spanish and Belgian agents on the European stage.
Christina Bezari
Senior post-doctoral fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Her research is located at the intersection of Spanish and comparative literature, translation studies and women’s history. She is the author of Transnational Modernity in Southern Europe: Women’s Periodicals and Salon Culture (Routledge, 2022) and the co-editor of “Las Vanguardistas: Women and the Avant-Garde in Ibero-America” (2023). Her current project at the ULB proposes a comparative study of Spanish and Belgian modernisms and examines the transnational networks that shaped early twentieth-century literary culture.