La incompetente

Precariedad, trabajo, literatura

Authors

  • Gabriel Giorgi New York University

Keywords:

precarious work, biopolitical fiction, form of life, affective regimen, Clarice Lispector, neoliberalism in America Latina

Abstract

Macabéa –la protagonista del clásico A hora da estrela (1977) de Clarice Lispector—ha sido leída sistemáticamente en su tensión con las representaciones de la nordestina y el universo de lo popular en la cultura brasileña. El presente ensayo, sin embargo, apunta a reinscribir esas discusiones en el marco más vasto y más matizado de la condición precaria como terreno característico de los procesos de neoliberalización que transforman América Latina desde finales de los 70s. Leer a Macabéa y A hora da estrela como figuraciones tempranas de la “vida precaria” –tal la apuesta de lectura del presente ensayo—nos permite dos operaciones fundamentales: por un lado, leer la transformación de las retóricas de la “pobreza” como alteridad --propias de la herencia cultural del desarrollismo latinoamericano-- a la luz de una condición precaria expansiva, contagiosa, que desmarca antagonismos clásicos. Por otro, nos permite leer las transformaciones de las figuraciones culturales del trabajador y la trabajadora a partir de una Macabéa que se evidencia irreductible a ellas, marcando una dislocación decisiva de los modos en que “trabajo” y “subjetividad” se anudan en contextos de neoliberalización. A hora da estrela emerge así como un texto que anticipa gramáticas formales –a la vez estéticas y políticas—que recorren la sociedad neoliberal, señalando así, una vez más, la contemporaneidad urgente de la escritura de Lispector. 

Author Biography

Gabriel Giorgi, New York University

Gabriel Giorgi is Full Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages ​​and Literatures at New York University. His research is focused on contemporary Latin American cultures, with an emphasis on literature and films from the Southern Cone and Brazil. He has published Sueños de exterminio. Homosexualidad y representación en la literatura argentina (Beatriz Viterbo, Rosario, 2004), where he addresses the ways in which sexual dissidence has combined decisive segments of contemporary Argentine literature. Hehas also co-edited with Fermín Rodríguez Excesos de vida.Ensayos sobre biopolítica (Paidós, 2007), and he hasmore recentlypublished Formas comunes. Animalidad, cultura, biopolítica(Eterna Cadencia, 2014), where he studies the political distinction between "lives to protect" and "lives to be abandoned" based on the cultural inscriptions of the animal. He has published in academic and cultural journals in the United States, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Argentina. He has taught post-graduate seminars at universities in Ecuador and Brazil as well as Argentina and the US. He is visiting professor at the University of San Andrés (Argentina).

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Published

2019-05-02

How to Cite

Giorgi, G. (2019). La incompetente: Precariedad, trabajo, literatura. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 16(3), 61–78. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1903

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 3 (2019): Spring 2019

Section

Dossier: El cuerpo del Trabajo: Precariedad

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