Assumptions, Unless One is Mistaken, of a far from Silent Divergence: Nativity, Abel Barros Baptista and Roberto Schwarz

Abstract

we'll discuss points made by Roberto Schwarz and Abel B. Baptista, based on the outside/inside dichotomy, around Machado's criticism and the evaluation of the “foreigner's” place. The importance of the local and its overcoming is debated in order to think about a certain posture that is constructed as restrictive and as excluding for both: if, in Schwarz, this appears as the primacy of the national, in Baptista it is his version of hospitality that makes his assumptions aporetic, when thinking about comparatism. Finally, our conclusions return to Schwarz, when we note the hijacking of a name (Gayatri C. Spivak) and, by paraphrasing some of the Spivak's points, we seek to demonstrate that it is possible to unite, in a way that both Schwarz and Baptista do not agree on, the theories that both try to defend as the only possible ones for analysis because, in Spivak, we often see the exact combination of comparatism and Marxism for argumentative construction.