Writing from the Tension.

Political and ideological conflicts in the intellectual production of Eduardo Galeano and Francisco Urondo: 1955-1976

Authors

  • Gabriel Montali Centro de Estudios Avanzados - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (CEA-UNC)

Keywords:

Intellectuals, Politics, Literatura, Eduardo Galeano, Francisco Urondo

Abstract

This paper analyzes the literary production and the political and ideological conflicts that characterized the trajectories of Eduardo Galeano and Francisco Urondo between 1955 and 1976. The text do not merely propose a reconstruction of the processes that led these writers to adhere to a prospect of radical transformation of capitalism. Indeed, we wish to disclose what controversies they had to face as anti-intellectual discourses were imposed among the leftist groups of the continent. Specifically, the work pursues, first, to specify the function the two authors attribute to the intellectuals and to the artistic work in that context. Second, to determine what do they propose to link literature and politics. And finally, to identify what position they adopted against the practices and worldviews marked by the logic of war. To this end, the analysis focuses on several dimensions of their work: the transformation of their thought along these two decades, the themes and stylistic resources they incorporated into their writing programs, and the treatment they gave to their own experiences of political and cultural militancy.

Author Biography

Gabriel Montali, Centro de Estudios Avanzados - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (CEA-UNC)

Licenciado en Comunicación Social por la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (FCC-UNC), Magister en Creación Literaria por la Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona (UPF), y doctorando en Estudios Sociales de América Latina por el Centro de Estudios Avanzados de la UNC (CEA-UNC). Docente de Teorías de la Comunicación III y el Seminario de Políticas de Comunicación y Cultura de la Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Comunicación de la Universidad Nacional de Villa María (UNVM); y Titular de la cátedra Análisis del Discurso en las licenciaturas de Contador Público y Recursos Humanos de la Universidad de Ciencias Sociales y Empresariales (UCES).

Published

2019-01-08

How to Cite

Montali, G. (2019). Writing from the Tension.: Political and ideological conflicts in the intellectual production of Eduardo Galeano and Francisco Urondo: 1955-1976. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 16(2), 9–39. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1858

Issue

Section

Dossier: Textures of the 60s/70s