Exile and Inter-American Perspectivism, Study and Sources for a Definition of 19th Century Argentine and Brazilian Literary Relations

Abstract

This article deals with a series of primary sources concerning intellectual, political and literary relations between Argentina and Brazil, specifically related to romanticism and the formation of national literature. It analyses the exile of Argentine authors in Montevideo, Pelotas and, in particular, Rio de Janeiro, with special focus on the archival documents found in the Manuscripts Section of Brazil’s National Library Foundation. It thus sets out to conceptualize a practice which, faced with aforementioned events, we have denominated “Inter-American perspectivism”, that is, a reorientation of comparativism away from its European origins to American latitudes, in light of the problem of the emergent autonomization of literature which in turn is the result of the crossing of Argentine and Brazilian national poetics through the displacement of Rioplatense writers, in-transit or exiled, in the city of Rio de Janeiro between 1843 and 1952.