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Chapter 19 - Forsaking Tradition: Dislocating the Sovereignty of Argentine Literature

from Part II - Critical Inroads

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2024

Alejandra Laera
Affiliation:
University of Buenos Aires
Mónica Szurmuk
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional de San Martín /National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina
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Summary

This is a chapter about the desire to escape, to flee, to desert the Argentineity of Argentine literature; about a force bent on undermining or abandoning Spanish, on imagining literary projects placed beyond, underneath, or against the institutionalized understanding of a national tradition based on long-held beliefs in sovereign forms of language, territoriality, and identity. It focuses on a discursive force lurking behind a list of proper names – J.Rodolfo Wilcock, Copi, Sylvia Molloy, Edgardo Cozarinsky, María Negroni – rendered visible by a shared will to displace the boundaries of the Argentine tradition as a cultural site that lends itself to processes of subjectivation and misidentification. The textual moments and stances analyzed inscribe displaced writerly practices (always marked by ambivalences and unresolved tensions) in a designated, reimagined foreign space, at once strange and familiar – be that a specific cultural and linguistic location in the Global North (Rome, Paris, New York) or an indeterminate site marked by indexical signs of elsewhereness.

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