Textos Híbridos

Over 30 years ago Aníbal González published his book La crónica modernista hispanoamericana (1982) and since then it has been and still is a reference for studying this genre. With its publication, it opened up the space to develop a new object of study. In a very short time, important studies like those of Julio Ramos, Desencuentros de la modernidad en América Latina: literatura y política en el siglo XIX (1989), and those of Susana Rotker, Fundación de una escritura (1992) and La invención de la crónica (1992/2006), they continued to problematize these hybrid writings, they installed the modernist chronicle as the paradigm within the history of the journalistic-literary chronicle, and they established it as a necessary space for the professionalization of the Latin American writer. Although, the 19th century offers other examples of writing that could be classified as chronicles and we invite all to reflect about them. 

With Vol. 7 Nº1 of Textos Híbridos, we have initiated a new stage of the journal and we are going back to the 19th century to rethink the emergency, development and definition of the chronicle (journalistic-literary) in Latin America in order to problematize the events leading up to the modernist chronicle, as well as to approach it from new critical perspectives.