The Tongues of the Locas and the Radical Art of Poverty

CECILIA PALMEIRO

Third Text

Routledge Taylor & Francis

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2020 vol. 34

0952-8822

Moments of deep crisis destabilise artistic autonomy, as such autonomy usually relies on arts? submission to the laws of the markets. When markets collapse, like they did in Argentina in 2001, artistic production is emancipated from the duties of money-making. This is the moment when original, ?amateur? artistic practices emerge that find another social and political function, in which writing is not contained by the rules of business. In contemporary Latin America, trespassing the limits of artistic autonomy is not a decision of the artist but rather a material condition of production. This article analyses three moments in which a post-autonomy literature emerged as a formation of a minoritarian, queer language of the locas: Brazilian poesia marginal (1970s), the Argentinian independent publishing projects Belleza y felicidad and Eloísa Cartonera (early 2000s), and the recent global feminist activist movement Ni una menos.