Autor/es
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Colaborador
Martyniuk, Claudio
Martínez, Margarita
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1970-1990
Idioma
spa
Extent
229 p.
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Cobertura
ARG
1970-1990
Abstract
Several theorizations coming from different disciplines and theoretical paradigms have dealt with the question of the configuration of subjective experience in contemporary times (cfr. Beck, 1998; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 2003; Dubet, 2010; Bauman, 2009; Jameson, 2005; Maffesoli, 2005). Leaving aside the discrepancies between them, in these diagnoses of the present that focus on current processes of subjectivation, class identity is usually obliterated as a powerful factor implicated in identity production (cfr. Butler, 2001a; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 2003; Bauman, 2008; Lazzarato, 2006). Based on these discussions, the present thesis aims to develop an analytical approach of the ways in which subjective experience is composed in contemporary societies, taking class identity as a central factor of influence. In this way, working with a corpus composed mainly of literary texts and taking as case study middle class identity in Argentina, the thesis will engage itself in showing the importance that middle class identity has in the ways in which subjective experience appears in literature, following an historical itinerary from the moment middle class identity becomes crystallized in Gino Germani’s sociology until its recent transformations in the “New Argentinean Narrative”.
In order to follow this path, the thesis works with texts belonging to different literary genres (scientific text, essay, novel, poetry, short story) since it defines middle class identity as an effect of an enunciation device with precise effects and characteristics. Thus it tries to seek in those texts the effectiveness of that enunciation device, as well as its variations (cfr. Verón, 1993). The thesis tackles diverse literary genres precisely to show how in each of them this matrix of enunciation operates producing as its most notorious effect the middle class identity, given that we understand that middle class identity production is articulated in a performative manner in the dimension of discourse (Althusser, 2005; Butler 2001a; Laclau and Mouffe, 2006). In this regard, in the First section of the thesis we analyze a selection of works by Gino Germani, tracing in his production the “coining” of the enunciation device of the Argentinean middle class. In El río sin orillas by Juan José Saer (1991) and in Carlos Gamerro’s Las islas (1998) we follow the variations that this enunciation device admits throughout different historical moments, focusing mainly in recent Argentinean history (especially from the 1970’s to the 1990’s).
In the Second section, our corpus is composed of works by three notorious authors of what the critique and the press have called “New Argentinean Narrative”. All the literary works selected in this section are of recent publication and its authors have been born in a posttraditional context (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 2003; Bauman, 2009). In this respect, the selection and analysis of contemporary texts is made in order to discuss the claims of contemporary sociologies that affirm that in present times the modern parameters of social structuring –taking social class as a paradigmatic representative of them– have fallen apart. On the contrary, in our analysis of the literature of Romina Paula, Mariano Blatt and Violeta Kesselman we focus on the punctuations of experience that these works point out, at the same time we intend to prove that there is a persistence of the middle class enunciation device operating in them. Nevertheless, in this exposition that follows an historical succession we will mention an important mutation in the enunciation device of Argentinean middle class.
In this way, the present thesis pretends to make a contribution to an incipient “sociology of experience” on the basis of the confluence and matching of different theoretical approaches in order to try to circumscribe and analyze the modes in which subjective experience in contemporary times is organized, focusing on the incidence of middle class identity, based on an analysis of texts coming mainly from Argentinean literature.
In order to follow this path, the thesis works with texts belonging to different literary genres (scientific text, essay, novel, poetry, short story) since it defines middle class identity as an effect of an enunciation device with precise effects and characteristics. Thus it tries to seek in those texts the effectiveness of that enunciation device, as well as its variations (cfr. Verón, 1993). The thesis tackles diverse literary genres precisely to show how in each of them this matrix of enunciation operates producing as its most notorious effect the middle class identity, given that we understand that middle class identity production is articulated in a performative manner in the dimension of discourse (Althusser, 2005; Butler 2001a; Laclau and Mouffe, 2006). In this regard, in the First section of the thesis we analyze a selection of works by Gino Germani, tracing in his production the “coining” of the enunciation device of the Argentinean middle class. In El río sin orillas by Juan José Saer (1991) and in Carlos Gamerro’s Las islas (1998) we follow the variations that this enunciation device admits throughout different historical moments, focusing mainly in recent Argentinean history (especially from the 1970’s to the 1990’s).
In the Second section, our corpus is composed of works by three notorious authors of what the critique and the press have called “New Argentinean Narrative”. All the literary works selected in this section are of recent publication and its authors have been born in a posttraditional context (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 2003; Bauman, 2009). In this respect, the selection and analysis of contemporary texts is made in order to discuss the claims of contemporary sociologies that affirm that in present times the modern parameters of social structuring –taking social class as a paradigmatic representative of them– have fallen apart. On the contrary, in our analysis of the literature of Romina Paula, Mariano Blatt and Violeta Kesselman we focus on the punctuations of experience that these works point out, at the same time we intend to prove that there is a persistence of the middle class enunciation device operating in them. Nevertheless, in this exposition that follows an historical succession we will mention an important mutation in the enunciation device of Argentinean middle class.
In this way, the present thesis pretends to make a contribution to an incipient “sociology of experience” on the basis of the confluence and matching of different theoretical approaches in order to try to circumscribe and analyze the modes in which subjective experience in contemporary times is organized, focusing on the incidence of middle class identity, based on an analysis of texts coming mainly from Argentinean literature.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales