Folklore, Literature and Pan-Americanism: Reflections on two American academic visits to Argentina (1940-1945)
This article examines two academic trips made by US experts to Argentina during World War II. Ralph Steele Boggs, a folklorologist at the University of North Carolina who arrived in Buenos Aires in 1940; and Edward Larocque Tinker, a doctor of literature recognized for his Sunday columns in the New...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Estudos Ibero-Americanos |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/36348 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/iberoamericana/article/view/36348 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Pan-Americanism Folklore Literature Argentina Panamericanismo Literatura Pan-americanismo Folclore |
| Resumo: | This article examines two academic trips made by US experts to Argentina during World War II. Ralph Steele Boggs, a folklorologist at the University of North Carolina who arrived in Buenos Aires in 1940; and Edward Larocque Tinker, a doctor of literature recognized for his Sunday columns in the New York Times, who arrived in 1945. Both were agents of the “Pan American unit”, established contacts with local institutions and carried out different activities. Through internal documents and publications by the Boggs host institution in Argentina and the private archive of Edward Larocque Tinker, I discuss how the academic articulate the Pan American speeches with the national identity representations that are in full expansion for this period and the effects on the American society. |
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