This article proposes a reading of the internationalization process of RChL from its foundation in 1970 to the issue 99 of 2019, that is, its opening to other literatures of the world and its critical potential in the framework of the Humanities. In methodological terms, this study focuses on four significant moments of this process which are linked - directly or indirectly - to the changing reality of Chilean history. In this general framework, the article first examines the beginnings of RChL in the period of the Unidad Popular. During this period, the publication participates in the national academic debate with emphasis on Chilean literature and its insertion in Latin America. This profile is dramatically modified with the impact of the military coup and the silence imposed during almost two decades of dictatorship. However, this is probably the period of the most international and at the same time “neutral” tendency in thematic, methodological, and ideological terms, yet bearing always an important “humanist” potential. With the transition to democracy, the profile of the magazine opens not only to different areas of world literature, trends and theoretical-methodological perspectives, but also shows a gradual but sustained openness towards themes, works and authors linked to the testimony and the memory of the recent past. Finally, the article examines the last decades of the magazine under the lens of the impact of the digital era, both in its electronic “materiality” and its humanistic potential in the horizon of an increasingly global internationalization process. While it renews and consolidates its commitment to Chilean literary manifestations, RChL also strengthens its connection to international horizons.
Keywords:
Literary magazines, Chilean and Latin American literature, literatures of the world, literature and humanities, Literary criticism
Nitschack, H., & König, I. (2019). The Revista Chilena de Literatura in four moments of its internationalization. Revista Chilena De Literatura, (100), pp. 171–190. Retrieved from https://lenguasmodernas.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/55515
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