ENTRESURES
SOCIAL CIENCES AND LITERATURE

The project will allow for the mobilization of writers and social scientists among countries, thus generating wefts which link social scientists with writers and in turn, linking these with colleagues in other countries, stimulating the potential of “south-south” proximity in this effort of reciprocal communication. Contacts and links among social science communities will be sought, as well as with cultural actors and institutions of the involved cities, so as to create the weft that will allow for the book to serve as a reference or reading in cultural and academic spaces.
It is also hoped that the contribution on behalf of the sociologist in the tracing of a comparative framework of national projects and courses, may help to place the idea of the mobilization of creators around the celebration of the bicentennial independence celebrations, on the agenda of Latin American countries, in terms of culture and education, so as to activate a sort of retro/prospective history in which, at the same time, individual and collective memories are explored, thus enabling a tracing future scenarios.
The writers that participate in the project, some of whom head their own small publishing houses, as well as other writers and small local publishers, will take advantage of said platform in order to exchange and promote their own work as well as that of colleagues from their respective countries. Via a distribution strategy focused on bartering and gift-giving, the gift acquires a symbolic and real dimension that grants important benefits: the development of enduring and effective distribution strategies, as well as the laying of the groundwork for cooperation and proximity across Latin American borders.

ENTRESURES
THE PARTICIPANTS

Jeannine Diego Medina (head and coordinator; Mexico)
Gabriel Restrepo (coordinator and itinerating sociologist; Colombia)
Andrea Jeftanovic (writer; Chile)
Eunice Shade (writer; Nicaragua)
Alberto Guerra (writer; Cuba)
Enrique Planas (writer; Perú)
Florencia Abbate (writer; Argentina)

Jeannine Diego (Houston, Texas, EUA, 1970). Coordinator and head of ENTRESURES.
Writer and translator based in Mexico City. She has lived in Florida, New York and Mexico City. She has published in a broad range of periodicals and other publications, and has collaborated on various “el despacho” projects (“el despacho” is a Mexico-based artist initiatives project that belongs to RAIN Artist Initiatives Network) as writer, in addition to having assumed an active role in the coordination and organization of “el despacho” projects. Said projects include “Will Remain Anonymous” (Mexico City/New York), “Tijuana-San Diego” (InSite 2000: Tijuana/San Diego), “(W)hole Things” (Sierre, Switzerland), “Hotel Trinidad” (Mérida, Yucatán), “Six Documentaries and a Film about Mexico City” (Mexico City) and, most recently, “The Valley of the Dog Songs” (Mexico, Netherlands, Indonesia, Argentina, United States, Perú). These projects have received the support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Prince Claus Funds, the FONCA (National Foundation for Culture and the Arts, Mexico: Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes), Stichting Döen (Netherlands), the Hivos Foundation (Netherlands) and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, among others.

Gabriel Restrepo (Bogotá, Colombia, 1946). Writer and sociologist. Restrepo has been key in providing the theoretical, philosophical and historical groundwork for the direction and objectives of ENTRESURES. He will be the itinerating sociologist in the collaborative phase of the project.
He was a professor for the Department of Sociology of the National University of Colombia from 1970 to 2000. His areas of academic expertise are culture, socialization and the formation of the subject, topics on which he has written and published around 20 books and 90 essays. He was the chief officer of the Development Area of the National Department of Planning in Colombia (1982-1986), and the National Counselor to the Presidency of Colombia (1990-1992), in charge of the reinsertion of ex-combatants. Three of his poetry books were finalists in the Fernando Rielo World Mystic Poetry Contest, in Madrid: En otro Exilio (1987); El Verbo Itinerante (1989); Una Presente Ausencia (1991). Other poetry books include: El Camino de Jerusalén (1991 – 2002) and Espejos nulos para miradas ciegas (2004). He won the National Short Story Prize of Colombia in 1967 and is currently in the process of working on a series of six novels which will compose a semi-historical and semi-autobiographical saga, and the first of which is titled Las Letras Vencidas.

The writers, in alphabetical order:

Florencia Abbate (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1976). She works as professor, editor and journalist. She is a graduate in Literaure form the University of Buenos Aires. She is part of the editorial committee of the Diario de poesía and often writes for the cultural supplements of the dailies “La Nación,” “El País” and “Eñe.” She has authored the books titled: “Él, ella, ¿ella? Apuntes sobre transexualidad masculina, Los transparentes and Deleuze para principiantes, among others. Her first novel, El grito (Emece, 2001), has been well received by critics and readers. She currently writes a novel titled Para que el mundo exista.

Jeannine Diego (Mexico City, Mexico, 1970)

Alberto Guerra Naranjo (Havanna, Cuba, 1963) Writer. Bachelor in History and Social Sciences, professor in History of Culture and Cultural Management. Published work of short fiction includes the books Disparos en el aula (1994), Aporías de la feria (1996), and Blasfemia del escriba (Letras cubanas, 2000 y 2002). He has obtained a broad range of awards, emong which are, the Luis Rogelio Nogueras Award, 1992, The City Award, 1994, Las Tunas Love Sroties Award, 1996, La Gaceta de Cuba National Short Story Award, 1997, Ernest Hemingway National Short Story Award, 1998, Razón de Ser Grant for a novel in progress (Alejo Carpentier Foundation) 1999. La Gaceta de Cuba National Short Story Award, 1999. The only Cuban writer to obtain this important prize on two separate occasions. In 1999, he was given the DAAD grant for a 3-month residence in Berlin. In May, 2000, he was invited to travel to Spain by Casa de América, in order to participate in the presentation of the anthology titled Nuevos Narradores Cubanos (New Cuban Narrators: Siruela publishers, 2000). His stories Corazón partido bajo otras circunstancia, Pequeñas maniobras and Disparos en el aula were filmed for national television and his book Blasfemia del Escriba is in its second edition. His stories have been published in a broad range of magazines and anthologies from different countries, having been translated to English, French, Italian, Finnish and German. His story titled Disparos en el aula is published in the anthology Cuentos históricos, de la piedra al átomo (Páginas de Espuma publishers, Spain, 2003) alongside authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Augusto Roa Bastos, Manuel Mujica Lainez, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Alfonso Sastre, José Emilio Pacheco, and others. Currently, he coordinates an electronic literary workshop and works on his upcoming novel titled "Cristal o La soledad del tiempo."

Andrea Jeftanovic (Santiago de Chile, Chile, 1970). She holds a degree in Sociology from the Catholic University of Chile and a doctorate in Hispanic-American Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. Published works include the novel Escenario de Guerra (Alfaguara Eds., 2000) for which she obtained the Gabriela Mistral Literary Prize, as well as a prize from the National Book Council and the Municipal Award. Her stories have been featured in the following anthologies: Desafueros (Planeta, 2000), Ecos Urbanos (Alfaguara, 2001), En Español (Santillana, 2001), Cien microcuentos chilenos (Cuarto Propio, 2002), Cuentos eróticos (revista Caras, 2005). She is currently writing her next novel with a grant from the National Book Council of Chile. She heads literary creation workshops and writes scripts for films and documentaries. She has been invited to the International Book Fairs of Lima (2005) and Guadalajara (2004), as representative of new contemporary Latin American Literature, in addition to having functioned as judge for several national literary contests.

Enrique Planas (Lima, Perú, 1970). He holds a degree in Literature and Humanities from the School of Social Communication (Lima, Peru). He has worked as editor and journalist for several cultural sections of national newspapers, including El Comercio, El Sol, La República, and El Mundo dailies, in addition to several magazines (both digital and print), he has been a professor for the Cultural Journalism department of the Catholic University of Peru. His publications include the titles: Puesta en escena (Alfaguara Eds., Lima, 2002), Alrededor de Alicia (Fondo Editorial del Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, Lima, 1999) and Orquídeas del Paraíso (Los Olivos Eds., Lima, 1996). He has won national literary prizes and has published short stories in several anthologies.

Eunice Shade (Managua, Nicaragua, 1981). Law Graduate. Journalist and writer. Her stories and poems have been featured in a broad range of newspapers and magazines, including El Nuevo Diario. She has been the editor of magazines including: El Pozo del Paroxismo and Marca Acme, a digital cultural magazine (www.marcaacme.com). She has won national debate and oratory contests. She founded and broadcast a radio program devoted to literature, titled Letroscopio. She has worked as professor in several universities, embassies and language centers.