Literary research in Argentine: continuities, discontinuities, institutionalization and internationalization (1945-2010)

ANALÍA GERBAUDO

Córdoba

Workshop; Social Sciences and Humanities in the Changing North-South Relations; 2015

INTERCO SSH/EHESS/CONICET/UNC

This presentation resumes the set of problems outlined in the invitation to the meeting to be held in Budapest in April 2015, The Social Sciences since 1945 in East and West: Continuities, Discontinuities, Institutionalization and Internationalization.We will try to establish a parallel between the turning point in European research in Social Sciences constituted by WWII, especially in some fields --other than philology and classical studies for reasons which will be later explained--, and the turning points in literary research constituted by Argentine dictatorships in 1966 and especially in 1976. The analysis of the post-WWII institutionalization and internationalization of Social Sciences, especially in Europe, may be compared to those which took place in Argentine post dictatorial literary research (1984) to the present day. This is a turning point for the reading of continuities and discontinuities in both processes. To that end, this presentation, which centers on the Argentine scenario and capitalizes on the conclusions drawn by the rest of the team regarding the European context, is ordered in three stages:First, it resumes the partial conclusions summarized in the First Technical Report. The institutionalization of literary studies in Argentine university. ?Draft? notes based on a first survey (Primer Informe Técnico. La institucionalización de las letras en la universidad argentina. Notas ?en borrador? a partir de un primer relevamiento). Basically, it shows, on the one hand, the methodological decisions which were oriented by analytical dimensions, with the variables and indicators proposed by INTERCO project; on the other, it describes the modifications which were made to address the peculiar ways of producing literary research during dictatorships, and finally, the partial results which were obtained are resumed.Second, the instruments employed to trace literary research internalization processes are presented: twenty biographies built on the basis of resumés and other data, and eighty semi-structured surveys completed by agents of the field. Thus, focus is made on those who dynamized literary research by proposing the agendas followed in the past four decades. In a passage devoted to archive policies we account for this methodological decision, which entailed leaving aside the analysis of the dynamics involved in the process. Apart from providing data related to institutionalization, survey questions and biography items were intended to reconstruct information about the following dimensions: 1. Migrations; 2. Cooperation; 3. Publications; 4. Translations.These dimensions are disaggragated in the following indicators: 1. Education (undergraduate/graduate [Masters, Doctorate, Post Doctorate]); scholarships and grants (doctoral, post doctoral); stays (doctoral, post doctoral, high development research); attendance/delivery of international lectures/courses; congresses; 2. international connections (networks, research teams); 3. international publications; 4.1. translation into mother tongue; 4.2. translation into a foreign language. In turn, these respond to the following variables: 1.1. duration; 1.2. reasons to migrate; 1.3. chosen country; 1.4. (national/international) sponsoring institution; 2.1. period; 2.2. country; 2.3. sponsoring institution; 3.1. journal/magazine (scientific, cultural, dissemination), book chapter, dictionary; 3.2. language; 3.3. country; 4.1.a. author and/or theoretical paradigm in which the translated text is inscribed; 4.1.b. published/unpublished; 4.2.a. language; 4.2.b. published (4.2.b.1. journal, book, book chapter; 4.2.b.2. editorial house) / unpublished; 4.2.c. country. Thirdly, some partial conclusions are presented which derive from the above-mentioned search and from other data obtained in three parallel research projects intersecting the INTERCO project. Apart from the tensions to be found in different periods both in the institutionalization and the internationalization of Argentine literary research, we conjecture about the following relationships: dominant poles of migration-period-reasons; ways in which knowledge-languages-periods circulate; imported/exported paradigms or reading lines. Starting from this outline, we analyze continuities and discontinuities in the period selected within the range 1945-2010, considering the aforementioned dimensions of analysis.(Texto en español, leído en esa lengua con traducción simultánea al inglés)