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Ipar, Ezequiel
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Temporal Coverage
2001
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spa
Extent
97 p.
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Cobertura
ARG
2001
Abstract
The signifier "poverty" is constituted as a territory of disputes "in which it is impossible to rehearse 'neutral' languages", rather than as an immutable theme (Grondona, 2013). It is for this reason that it is necessary to reformulate this conception as the result of "a long and complex work of technical, moral and political construction" (Vommaro, Daniel, 2013: 24) that exceeds the scientific conceptualization intended by the social sciences. In contemporary times, poverty is the object of discourse of journalistic media, social networks, the different arts and, in short, of the entire social discourse (Angenot, 2010). It is under this dispute that it is possible to introduce discourses from other non-technified fields that can produce socially legitimate definitions of poverty.
This dissertation aims to inquire into the ways in which Argentine literature of the 2001 post-crisis narrates poverty, exploring the way in which it constructs it as an object of discourse and as a problematic. In this sense, this will be virtually a sociological writing that will borrow from diverse disciplinary perspectives, namely literary theory and discourse analysis. This methodological multidisciplinarity will not be a merely hermeneutical tool but will be understood as part of the problematic under study.
In this sense, we ask ourselves, how does post-crisis Argentine literature understands poverty? what discursive elements does it resort to? what light can it shed on a problematic in the eyes of the technicality of the social sciences? These questions should be elaborated in the light of the caveat that this paper does not pretend to be strictly a sociology of literature. Although we will account for the discursive positions of the authors we will work with, the material conditions of their writing and the ideological elements involved in their prose, the work here will seek to do sociology with literature, not seeking theoretical saturation in literary analysis but using their discourse to understand the proposed problematic in a more comprehensive way.
The time frame, which we place from 2001 onwards, is justified by a historical reconfiguration of both global and local orders. The global order responds to the great processes of economic-institutional crisis that crossed the beginning of the 21st century (Piketty, 2014; Krugman, 2009). The local order, to the institutional fragility of the Argentine State and the economic and social crisis of the country at the end of 2001 (Svampa 2005; Adamovsky, 2009; Pucciarelli and Castellani, 2015). One of the effects of this crisis would have been to mark "a literature that could not exist, as it exists, without that event [the crisis]". That literature would pose "certain renovations in the ways of representing the forms of impoverishment" (Hernaiz: 2012) that would not have existed in previous narratives.
This dissertation is structured on the basis of the analysis of how the concept of poverty itself is an overdetermined and disputed signifier and, secondly, how this dispute has evolved at the local level. Further on, with respect to literary discourse, the characteristics that distinguish it from the rest of the discourses of the public sphere in general and that of the social sciences are consigned. This distinction will open the doors to the methodology we intend to propose in this paper and to the subsequent development of the analysis, which will be structured in the following chronological order: (a) a brief review of Argentine literature on poverty in the pre-crisis history; (b) an analysis of works on the crisis and its poverty narrative; (d) a parenthesis with respect to the analysis of works to study the case of the publishing house Eloísa Cartonera as a by-product of the 2001 event; and (d) lastly, an analysis of post-crisis works, attending to the complex particularity of the term.
This dissertation aims to inquire into the ways in which Argentine literature of the 2001 post-crisis narrates poverty, exploring the way in which it constructs it as an object of discourse and as a problematic. In this sense, this will be virtually a sociological writing that will borrow from diverse disciplinary perspectives, namely literary theory and discourse analysis. This methodological multidisciplinarity will not be a merely hermeneutical tool but will be understood as part of the problematic under study.
In this sense, we ask ourselves, how does post-crisis Argentine literature understands poverty? what discursive elements does it resort to? what light can it shed on a problematic in the eyes of the technicality of the social sciences? These questions should be elaborated in the light of the caveat that this paper does not pretend to be strictly a sociology of literature. Although we will account for the discursive positions of the authors we will work with, the material conditions of their writing and the ideological elements involved in their prose, the work here will seek to do sociology with literature, not seeking theoretical saturation in literary analysis but using their discourse to understand the proposed problematic in a more comprehensive way.
The time frame, which we place from 2001 onwards, is justified by a historical reconfiguration of both global and local orders. The global order responds to the great processes of economic-institutional crisis that crossed the beginning of the 21st century (Piketty, 2014; Krugman, 2009). The local order, to the institutional fragility of the Argentine State and the economic and social crisis of the country at the end of 2001 (Svampa 2005; Adamovsky, 2009; Pucciarelli and Castellani, 2015). One of the effects of this crisis would have been to mark "a literature that could not exist, as it exists, without that event [the crisis]". That literature would pose "certain renovations in the ways of representing the forms of impoverishment" (Hernaiz: 2012) that would not have existed in previous narratives.
This dissertation is structured on the basis of the analysis of how the concept of poverty itself is an overdetermined and disputed signifier and, secondly, how this dispute has evolved at the local level. Further on, with respect to literary discourse, the characteristics that distinguish it from the rest of the discourses of the public sphere in general and that of the social sciences are consigned. This distinction will open the doors to the methodology we intend to propose in this paper and to the subsequent development of the analysis, which will be structured in the following chronological order: (a) a brief review of Argentine literature on poverty in the pre-crisis history; (b) an analysis of works on the crisis and its poverty narrative; (d) a parenthesis with respect to the analysis of works to study the case of the publishing house Eloísa Cartonera as a by-product of the 2001 event; and (d) lastly, an analysis of post-crisis works, attending to the complex particularity of the term.
Título obtenido
Magister de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Comunicación y Cultura
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales