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DIAZ ZANELLI, José Carlos. Parochials of this World: Arguedas’s and Cortázar’s Cultural Politics in World Literature. Letras [online]. 2023, vol.94, n.139, pp.110-124.  Epub 29-Mayo-2023. ISSN 0378-4878.  http://dx.doi.org/10.30920/letras.94.139.8.

The World Literature debate has spawned a set of discussions on the role of postcolonial literature, which prompts a redesigning of the current understanding, circulation, and teaching of certain cultural fields. In this context, Latin American literature has a particularly problematic position, mainly due to is (post)colonial condition, which this article explores through the analysis of the polemics and cultural politics of two emblematic intellectuals: the Peruvian writer and anthropologist José María Arguedas and the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. By examining the impasse held by these two public intellectuals, as well as their formulations on the need to universalize/globalize Latin American literature, this paper explores how these authors anticipate some key terms about current discussions in the sphere of World Literature as applied to Latin American literature. Through analyzing their public writings such as letters, journalistic articles, interviews, and speeches, concepts such as universality, worldliness, and cosmopolitism are explored in their ideological dimensions within an analytical framework that embraces decolonial critique and world-system theory. In this way, this work contrasts the universalizing and cosmopolitizing construct that runs through the arguments formulated by these two well-known authors whose most productive periods occurred in parallel with the beginning of the asymmetrical process of cultural globalization in Latin America.

Palabras clave : Latin American Literature; World Literature; Jose María Arguedas; Julio Cortazar.

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