Beyond literature
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i9p30-43Keywords:
World literature, the concept of literature, Antonio Candido, human rights.Abstract
If, for Goethe, the possibility of a world literature was assured by the universality of the idea of literature, Marx's thought points in the direction of a rather different view: it is the process of circulation that creates the conditions for comparison, as it assigns abstract value to singular objects. This process is never free of violence; in the case of literature, it requires the translation of diverse discursive practices into the abstract language of world literature. Throught a reading of Antonio Candido's essay "The Right to Literature", this paper argues that attempts to narrate the expasion of literature in mid-twentieth-century Latin American literary histories were often closer to the first of these two positions, with a universalist and inclusive idea of literature containing the difference of local discursive formations.Downloads
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2006-12-06
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How to Cite
Natali, M. P. (2006). Beyond literature. Literatura E Sociedade, 11(9), 30-43. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i9p30-43