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Call for Papers: Cultural relations between Italy and Latin America from the 1920s to the 1940s

The Cultural Secretariat of the IILA - International Italo-Latin American Organisation, opens the call for participation in the 6th issue of the journal "Quaderni Culturali IILA" - 2024. The proposed monographic issue of Quaderni Culturali IILA seeks to investigate the artistic, literary and intellectual exchanges between the Italian peninsula and the Latin American continent through the inter-textual and inter-artistic relationship between works and authors in the decades between 1920 and 1940.

Deadline for Submission of Articles: June 1, 2024

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Quaderni Culturali IILA is a freely available international magazine founded by the Cultural Secretary of IILA - Italo-Latin American Organization (international organization, of which Italy and twenty Latin American countries are members) in 2018. The magazine offers thematic issues and is published annually with contributions in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and English.

Quaderni Culturali IILA publishes studies and analyses of the arts and different Latin American cultures. The journal aims to promote intellectual discussion and critically innovative subjects and methodologies from a  interdisciplinary point of view.

Quaderni Culturali IILA - ONLINE ISSN 2785-5031

Editor in Chief - Claudia Barattini,  IILA Cultural Secretary


Current IssueVol 6, No 6 (2024): Las relaciones culturales entre Italia y América Latina entre los años 20 y 40 del Siglo XX

Published December 30, 2024

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Table of Contents

Editorial
3-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3253

Introduction

Crucial Decades: Cultural Relations Between Italy and Latin America in the 1920s and 1940s
Stefano Tedeschi
5-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3254

Articles

Expectations and realities: floating exhibition’s agencies of the Regia Nave Italia in Cartagena de Indias, 1924
Viridiana Rivera Solano
11-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3256
Beyond the Sea: Piero Belli’s Mexico in the Diplomatic Mission of the ship Italia of 1924
Eduardo Crivelli Minutti
25-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3257
Trade, race and culture: Mussolini’s Italy, Latin America and Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Andrés Ordóñez
35-45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3258
“Why will I have to leave Rome, where I spent some days of magic?”: History, memory and aesthetics in four writers from Mexico in Italy in the early 1920s
Manuel López Forjas
47-55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3259
Futurism in exile: Nanni Leone Castelli in Mexico
Franco Savarino Roggero
57-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3260
Gian Gaspare Napolitano: an Italian perspective on the Seris of Mexico
Sara Barbini
67-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3261
Italian culture in Buenos Aires in 1928. A debate
Celina Manzoni
77-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3262
What’s the point of a film review in an anti-fascist newspaper? Scarface and the portrait of a civilisation (1933)
Marcelo Mari
85-93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3263
Cultural diplomacy and conflict: Mexico and Italy in the radical years of Cárdenas and Mussolini (1936-1940)
Alejandra Ortiz Castañares
95-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3264
A Brazilian poet in the Vatican: Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo and the papal diplomacy
Jair Santos
115-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3265
In the night of the tamarind trees: sad tropics and emigration in the elegiac poetry of Vicente Gerbasi
Alessio Arena
125-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-3266
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