1st Edition

Intellectuals in the Latin Space during the Era of Fascism Crossing Borders

Edited By Valeria Galimi, Annarita Gori Copyright 2020
216 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume investigates a galaxy of diverse networks and intellectual actors who engaged in a broad political environment, from conservatism to the most radical right, between the World Wars. Looking beyond fascism, it considers the less-investigated domain of the 'Latin space', which is both geographical and cultural, encompassing countries of both Southern Europe and Latin America.... Read more

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Hybridizing Ideas within the ‘Latin space’: Transnational Agents and Polycentric Cross-Border Networks

Annarita Gori and Valeria Galimi

Part 1. Transnational Agents

2 António Sardinha and his Ibero-American Connections. Traditionalism and Universalism

Sérgio Campos Matos

3 ¿Ramiro de Maetzu between Argentine and Spanish Nationalisms

Alfonso Botti and Daniel Lvovich

4 Pietro Maria Bardi’s First Journey to South America. A Narrative of Travel, Politics and Architectural Utopia

Paolo Rusconi

5 Plínio Salgado between Brazil and Portugal. Formation and Transformation of Brazilian Integralism

Leandro Pereira Gonçalves

Part 2. Intellectual networks

6 The Association de la Presse Latine. Efforts and Failure of a Right-Wing pan-Latinist Project

Annarita Gori

7 Les amis étrangers. Maurrassian Circles and a French Perspective on the Latin space during the Thirties

Valeria Galimi

8 Atlantic Crossings. Intellectual-Politicians and the Diffusion of Corporatism in the Thirties Latin America

António Costa Pinto

9 Local and Global Connexions of Argentine, Uruguayian and Chilean Fascists in the Thirties and Early Forties

Ernesto Bohoslavsky and Magdalena Broquetas

Index

Biography

Valeria Galimi is tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Florence, Italy. She has been a visiting scholar and professor in France, Israel and the United States. Her interests are on the history of French intellectuals during the interwar period, the history of European anti-Semitism, fascism and the Second World War.



Annarita Gori is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her work focuses on right-wing intellectual networks in the interwar period, cultural propaganda and pan-Latinism. She was visiting scholar at New York University (2015) and Science Po (2016). During Spring 2020, she will be a visiting professor at Brown University.