TRAVEL WRITINGS AND DISPLACEMENTS THROUGH AMERICA IN THE 1960S: POLITICAL ITINERARIES AND LITERARY GENRES

Abstract

This article proposes an interpretation of the main trends in travel writing produced during the sixties in the Southern Cone. During this period, writers, journalists, artists, militants, and revolutionaries traveled through Latin America guided by political itineraries. From the analysis of a heterogeneous corpus of chronicles, diaries, and other genres, these displacements generated a particular cartography that reveals new forms of writing. The article addresses the main characteristics of these writings, including: the self-representation of the figure of the writer from a relational perspective, the hybridization of narratives with a social and political discourse, the elaboration of the conjuncture and the centrality of the interview. These are aspects that discursively account for the prevailing ideological tendencies of the time.