Tierras, Regiones Y Zonas: Poéticas y políticas de espacios no-urbanos en los sesenta en Brasil y Argentina
Abstract
This dissertation examines the ways in which non-urban spaces were approached as objects
of knowledge in Argentine and Brazilian essays, chronicles, and films in the 1960s.
It is comprised of three case-studies. The first traces the role of spatial coordinates
in 1960s' political imagination, reconstructed through programmes for economic modernization
(developmentalist agendas and the Doctrine of National Security), through Frantz Fanon's
thirdworldist understanding of political organization, and through Gunder Frank's
version of Dependency theory. The second study centers upon Brazil's rural Northeast
as evoked in Antônio Callado's chronicles and economist Celso Furtado's memoirs,
that both simultaneously took up and challenged the terms by which developmentalism's
mainly technical modernization sought to legitimate itself. The third case-study begins
with the national horizon envisaged for Argentina by economist Rogelio Frigerio's
apology of industrialization as an agent of social homogenization. This horizon is
then contrasted with two investigations on marginal spaces: Fernando Birri's documentary
film "Tire dié" and Roberto Carri's essay in which, by defining a new space, the "area
of colonial capitalism," Carri brings to the fore novel forms of political action.
I situate each case-study at a crossroads between developmentalist hopes and blossoming
liberation movements, demonstrating how each resignifies differently national and
transnational coordinates. Critical theories of space, as well as intellectual history
and discourse analysis constitute my readings' methodological base, guiding my analyses
of aspects that are often overlooked in studies of 1960s culture, particularly as
regards the constitution of militant subjectivities and trajectories. Inspired by
David Harvey and Henri Lefebvre's theories and methods, I detect the constant presence
of a technified prism in the spatial imagination of modernization, be it social or
economic. I argue that the descriptive activity by which these marginal spaces are
produced as objects of knowledge is also poetic as it approaches these decaying spaces
from the vantage of a present defined by hopes in technical modernization as an agent
of progress. As such, this descriptive and poetic activity amounts to a complex political
intervention that articulates such spaces in function of specific temporalities and
rhythms, rethinking critically their relation to imperialism and to capitalist modernization.
Type
DissertationDepartment
Romance StudiesSubject
Literature, Latin AmericanArgentina
Intellectual life
Brazil
Intellectual life
th century
Brazil
Northeast
History
Marginality
Social
Argentina
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