Abstract

ROMANO, Eduardo. An experience of limits and borders. CELEHIS [online]. 2018, n.36, pp.1-10. ISSN 2313-9463.

This lecture brings together the knowledge and the experience of Eduardo Romano, who have gone through his academic life in a passionate way with the "commitment to literary margins", and his affiliations and disagreements, then, with the contemporary and later Argentine intellectual field. The author recalls his tenacious approach to different genres of popular culture: the "tango" itself and its relation with the poetry of 40 and his own poetic production; the links between "tango" and "gauchesca" poetry and its prolongation in later genres such as the counterpoints of the "payadores", the "criollistas" literate poets, etc. He makes special emphasis on poetics alternatives to those of poetry -according to their opinion, not considered sufficiently in the field of literature for criticism-, and, in this sense, puts in value, in addition to "tango", the pseudo folklore and the various subgenres of the international song -rock, "rancheras", "boleros", "cumbia", urban improvisers, "cantautores"-. His doctoral thesis (2000), which gave rise to a fundamental book such as Revolution in reading (2004), studies another textuality that is little frequented by critics, such as the illustrated magazines of  Río de la Plata. Romano , in a Gramscian key, emphasizes in his assessment and legitimation of these "minor" texts their possibilities of negotiation and resistance against the prejudiced theories of "dependence", held by many actors in the academic field.

Keywords : Eduardo Romano; Popular culture; Minor genres; Intelectual field.

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