El bebé y el agua de la bañera o ¿aún contra la literatura? (in/comodidades de las nuevas agendas)

Abstract

The dominance of cultural studies in diverse zones of the academy have induced projects that in the 70s and 80s meant an epistemological turning point of the Latin-American literary criticism tradition, to be forgotten. Today's tendencies towards culturalism -genealogical criticism, subaltern studies- have cast doubt over literature as an object of study in such a manner that they favour the disappearance of these projects from the new critical agenda. The review of some problems that arise from this desire will be carried out based on articles by Alberto Moreiras and John Beverley.