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Mexican intellectual Francisco Bulnes is one of the most outstanding members of the so-called group of scientists during the Porfiriato. He forms part of the Mexican Astronomical Commission to Japan in 1874 as an official writer. In addition, Bulnes published in 1875 a personal and well-documented account of the scientific expedition in Japan and the vicissitudes of the journey through the East: On the Northern Hemisphere, Eleven Thousand Leagues. Travel impressions to Cuba, United States, japan, China, Cochinchina, Egypt and Europe. This paper studies the details of this exceptional chronicle of a renowned Hispanic American intellectual, chronicle that with a rich cultural baggage expresses his own vision of the world, his country and East Asia. The positivist liberalism of Bulnes's contrasts with his skeptical worldview. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1870 and 1890 several women's magazines from Buenos Aires assiduously began to publish texts from Peruvian writers, influenced largely by the arrival of Juana Manuela Gorriti to that city. These magazines became a platform to promote transnational dialogues among their female contributors, legitimizing the figure of the female American writer in this process. This paper aims to study this circuit of publication, which would extend until the late nineteenth century, when writers like Clorinda Matto de Turner and Carolina Freyre de Jaimes settled in Argentina and developed their own journalistic projects there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the complex relationship between mid-19th century Hispanic American culture and Europe by looking at one of the salient sentiments in Domingo F. Sarmiento's Viajes (1845-1847): his antihispanism. Specifically, it focuses on the sections on France and Spain, where Sarmiento's work significantly eschews the style of “travel impressions". In those sections, Romantic orientalism allows Sarmiento to both inscribe the minority status of Río de la Plata's culture and language politically, and to position himself in the larger context of European culture. This rhetorical maneuver enables Sarmiento to revisit and reconfigure notions of local color, exotism and orientalism he had explored in Facundo (1845). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]