Fotoreportaje: la búsqueda de la patria chica (registro literario de Quito 1940-2018).

Abstract

Benjamín Carrión (1897-1977), founder of the Casa de la Cultura, was the greatest promoter of Ecuadorian culture, placing the name of Ecuador in the cultural sphere; by the sixties he promulgated an idea that was ahead of the time, an approach that would revolutionize all aspects of society: the little nation, which would mean becoming not a political or military power, but a cultural power. However, globalization in contemporary societies has contributed to transformations in cultural and identity expressions, and spaces of manifestation; and Quito, cultural capital, has not been an exception. So: how to visualize these alterations? Through a retrospective look at what was and is the literature of Ecuador, especially since 1944 and its special development in Quito. Since literature has been the identity base of nations, could Russia be understood without Dostoevsky?, Argentina without Borges ?, and Ecuador without whom? The tool to visualize it is the photoreport, which reaches multiple audiences, and captures the attention of non-readers, because the interest is focused on the everyday spaces where the creative process has been developed, and on some representative characters, who have forged the identity of the city, and Ecuador. This communicative product opens up the possibility of viewing literature, the book's section and its author, and promoting the population to form the historical and living memory of peoples through communication, the instrumental basis of the future.