La reconstrucción de la mediación cultural en ausencia de archivos personales: el caso de Amaya Lacasa
Álvaro Marín García
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Title
The reconstruction of cultural mediation in the absence of personal archives: The case of Amaya Lacasa
Abstract
This article reconstructs the agency of the translator Amaya Lacasa through the study of archives, interviews, and correspondence involving other cultural mediators with whom she collaborated and whose cultural and literary capital, as well as popularity, were in most cases significantly greater: Claudio Guillén, Jaime Salinas, Luis Goytisolo, Miguel Sáenz, and Javier Marías. The reconstruction of the role of a mediator not in isolation but based on the relationships established within a network allows us to bring to the fore the figure of a woman translator, a mediator without her own public or private archive, whose work risked invisibility. The findings show that relational approaches can help us reconstruct the agency of mediators whose visibility and representation in the holdings of public archives are limited. This conclusion warrants future research on mediating networks to shed light both on mediators’ agency and on the distributed nature of the mediating process.
Keywords
Amaya Lacasa, microhistory, archives, invisibility, contemporary Spanish culture
23 Mar 2026