WHAT IS ENTRESURES?

Entresures is an initiative based on an approximation between Latin American communicators, artists and writers, conceived by Jeannine Diego during the first semester of 2004, the 5-year strategy of which has been outlined during a first meeting held in Buenos Aires, between Jeannine Diego (Mexico), Gustavo López (Argentina) and Gabriel Restrepo, (Colombia), which took place from October 28th through November 5th.

What does Entresures mean?
The name is coined as a neologism composed by the preposition entre (inter- or between) and the plural of sur (south: souths); loosely translated as BetweenSouths.
The preposition entre (inter-) indicates connection, according to the Larousse Encyclopedia, and the scope of its use covers five large semantic categories:

1. medial situation pertaining to two or more persons or things. Given this connotation, the initiative is an instrument of cultural mediation undertaken by writers with regard to several borders: those of the 40 nations inhabited by 500 million people that comprise the region of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as those regarding the inter/mediation of scientific, pedagogic, aesthetic and philosophical understandings, via the literary craft, and in both cases, with the purpose of promoting cultural re/cognition and integration among Latin American and Caribbean States.

2. temporary interval from one moment to another. Within this context, Entresures has taken into account two moments between which the exercise of thinking and rethinking Latin America and the Caribbean can be immensely fruitful: the moment of the declaration of independence and founding of States (1808-1824) and the moment of its re/memorial re/founding within the framework of the celebration of the bicentennials (between 2008 and 2024). Entresures wishes to emphasize the role of the writer in the imperative task of the re-founding of States, one which, upon involving artists, comes about not within the political sphere which isn’t theirs, but rather within that of rethinking and renaming our complex reality.

3. relationship or comparison. Entresures undertakes the mobilization of writers and literature between countries in order to set in motion the links of cooperation, hospitality and recognition.

4. denoting the collaboration of each in what several do in unison. Entresures is conceived as an effort that enables virtual and physical correspondence in order to achieve synergy in the craft of writing/distribution/reading on behalf of thinkers and writers, so as to empower Latin American and Caribbean expression, as an exercise of unity amidst diversity.

5. place within which. Our place, the place of Entresures, is a true place and an imaginary place. The true place is the geographic and political space that brings together 40 States and 500 million people, with traditions both common and different, in urgent need of internal economic and political integration in order to assume, simultaneously, a greater balance of economic and cultural integration with the world. The imaginary place of Entresures is the notion of Latin America and the Caribbean as Utopia (in its etymology, a non-place), named as such from More to Enríquez Ureña.