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Vol. 17,  iss. 37,  January-April, 2026

Algorithms, Platforms and Books: Constructing Authorship through the Case of Contemporary Argentine Women Writers

Victoria Saez, Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet, Argentina
Paula Simonetti, Universidad de la República ANII, Uruguay

This article explores the trajectories of young Argentine women writers in the current post-pandemic context, marked by the expansion of platforms such as Instagram and TikTok. Focusing on the digital-analog convergence in the youth literary sector, it analyzes the new mediators that are reshaping access to publication and the construction of authorship. Grounded in the theoretical framework of the sociology of literature and based on in-depth interviews, the study investigates how these authors build their public image, make their literary production visible, and negotiate their place within the contemporary literary field. It examines the tensions between literary legitimacy, algorithmic visibility, market demands, and time management. Through the analysis of situated experiences, the article contributes to understanding the current reconfigurations of the literary field, where self-publishing, traditional publishing, digital mediation, community building, precarity, and the constant negotiation between literary value and visibility converge.

Keywords: sociology, literature, Argentina, platforms, youth, gender, publishing, mediation 

The Mute Gesture: Musical Reconfigurations through the Comic's Affordances in Glenn Gould: A Life Off  Tempo by Sandrine Revel

Julio Gutiérrez, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile

The present article aims to review the resources and methods employed in comic narratology to readjust aspects of musical sound discourse. Through the examination of the concept of remediation, it seeks to demonstrate the versatility of the media affordances of comics to adapt to different languages, media, and semiotic systems. Considering that the sequential medium cannot reproduce sound, it will be shown that through visuality, closure, and other resources inherent to comics, musical discourse can be reconstructed in a manner intrinsic to graphic sequentiality.

Keywords: music, remediation, comic, narratology, semiotics, semiosphere, Sandrine Revel, media affordances 

Family, Race and Property. Romantic Views of the Landscape of Exile in La familia del Comendador, by Juana Manso

Graciela Batticuore, Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet, Argentina

In 1854, a novel by Juana Manso was published in Buenos Aires, but it received little subsequent circulation until recent editions in recent years. It was La familia del Comendador, originally published in Portuguese, first in Rio de Janeiro, then in Buenos Aires. The work offers a questioning look at social ties, land ownership, and the colonialism still prevalent in the Americas, from an egalitarian, secular, feminist, and romantic perspective. We will develop this proposal by aligning the novel with other literary and visual repertoires of its time and exploring its resonance with current narratives that –as J. Manso did in this novel- imagine utopian solutions to the conflicts that progressive ideals bring with them in the Americas.

Keywords: nature, slavery, romanticism, feminism, Latin America, 19th Century, Juana Manso, progress 

Resonances of Kardecian Spiritualism in Venezuelan Literature Between Centuries (1857-1927)

Ronald Sanoja Cáceres, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

This work explores the ideological, thematic and expressive intermediations that arise in Venezuelan literature from its contacts with Kardecian Spiritualism. To give an example of this, a panoramic study of a large corpus is proposed, composed of narrative, poetry and journalistic prose, belonging to the period that spans from the mid-19th century to the beginning of the 20th (or since the arrival of spiritualism to the country until the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez). It is concluded that, through the intermediation of Spiritist references and precepts, the metaphysical discourses of the works of the period are reinvented, and both the thematic-textual proteicity of the works, as well as their creative, commercial and ideologically subversive powers, are highlighted.

Keywords: spiritualism, venezuelan literature, romanticism, 19th century, spiritism, esotericism, modernism, Allan Kardec