Argentine Jetties: Snapshots (or the Symptomatic Revelation of a Certain Cadence)

• Autores: Gerbaudo, Analía Isabel
• Año de publicación: 2024
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: parte de libro
• Materia: INTERNACIONALIZACIÓN; ESPIGONES; CIRCULACIÓN; CONCEPTOS
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

To jumpstart our discussion for this chapter, I will expose three snapshots in time. If, as we learned from Jacques Derrida, a symptom is “what befalls us” (2007b: 457), or what falls along “with another thing, at the same time or in the same place as another thing” (2017: 392),1 then we should consider what symptomatic cadence would allow us to peer at the constellation of objects, scenes, scenarios, and actors in the field of literary studies. We shall now present this field through the perspective of a snapshot. The first is taken from an essay by Nora Catelli that circulates in two languages and contexts: on the one hand, in English, in the second volume of the Journal of World Literature led by David Damrosch at Harvard University; and, on the other hand, in Spanish, in the magazine Badebec led by a collective of young women researchers from the National University of Rosario (Laura Catelli, Julieta Yelin, Carolina Rolle, Julia Musitano, and Fernanda Alle). From a nodal pole in a transnational academic field, on the one hand, and from the center of a peripheral space in the world circulation of ideas, on the other, Catelli tells the same story: one that revolves around one scene, its registration, and a conjecture...
Fil: Gerbaudo, Analía Isabel. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales del Litoral. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales del Litoral; Argentina