From Rio de Janeiro to New York: chronicles of José Martí and Machado de Assis

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7992.2016v23n1p85

This paper has as its starting point the observation of the scarce critical articulation between the Brazilian and the Spanish American nineteenth-century universe of chronicle writing. Firstly, it discusses the mobility of chroniclers and texts for nineteenth-century newspapers, their geographical drifts and their localization in cities such as Rio de Janeiro, New York, Caracas and Buenos Aires. After doing so, it proposes a comparative reading of diferent chronicles from Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) and Cuban José Martí (1853-1895), according to the ironical device and the relationship they get to establish with the reader.