A magazine of culture in a country with political intolerance: the Colombian periodical Mito as political object

Abstract

Through an approach that seeks to understand the cultural and political dimensions as interdependent, based on conceptual emplacements of thinkers as Raymond Williams, Beatriz Sarlo and Michel Foucault, this article discusses how Mito – revista bimestral de cultura worked directly on the polarized and conflicting Colombian political reality between the years of 1955 and 1962, posi­tioning itself on the socio-cultural barriers that lingered from the years directly prior to its publication. The considered reading perspective, before taking the magazine only as a record of historical events, notes the composition of its speech as interfering in the political-cultural context of the country.

Keywords

• Literatura colombiana
• Periódicos literários latino-americanos
• Intelectuais e política