Experiencia y enseñanza de otras literaturas desde Argentina. Conjeturas en torno a una bifrontalidad

Abstract

The present work attempts to reflect on the teaching role of Other literatures in Argentina, understanding, in the first place, that this activity is inevitably linked to reception and translation phenomena, as well as to reading traditions that determine the praxis. The choise for the concept “Other literatures”, in stead of the traditional denomination “foreign languages literatures” (concept that arouse from an intense debate among those of us who organized the academic event in which this work was presented: I Meeting of Latin American Studies on Other Literatures), respond to the need of thinking the Other not only in terms of something foreign or different but also (following Lacan) as something that constitutes the own. Following this hypotesis, the work proposes a genealogy of teaching figures marked by bifrontality, that is, teachers that have focused on the critical production about Other literatures as well as to a corpus of Argentinian literature. The educational work of Other literatures in Argentina often leads to the creation of transversal critical objects, whose formulations feed on crossing perspectives. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the reflection this work tries to shape aims at inquirinng into my own (double) positioning as a teacher of European Literature II and a researcher in the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET).