Seventeenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

Hispanic literature is presented as the fruit of an incessant breaking of the borders in which the interrelation between Spain and Latin America and the whole world. We cannot conceive Hispano-American literature without understanding the vast territory that its treasures occupy. However, when it comes to finding a place where letters converge and present themselves before the public as a literary amalgam as heterogeneous as brilliant, it is essential to mention the Sur Journal and its founder, the writer Victoria Ocampo. She is undoubtedly one of the most important women in the Hispanino-American literary scene of the twentieth century, since she managed to give voice to writers, not only Argentines, but of different nationalities, which earned her the criticism of numerous nationalist groups that sentenced the collaboration of foreign intellectuals in the magazine, claiming that Ocampo only sought to satisfy international readers, leaving aside the essence and the Argentine letters. However, she never let herself be intimidated by the opinions of her opponents and managed to make the pages of her publication an international meeting point for writers and artists of different skills. In the year 1931, the Sur Journal came into existence for the first time and soon became a reference publication, since it was attended by personalities. Thus, we know how the magazine was born and the relevance without borders that it experienced, but how did it all begin? Who or what was the one in charge of giving the starting signal?, who wrote the first lines?