Literary Enunciation as a Foreign Position

Hypothesis on its Teaching and Research in Argentina

Abstract

This article analyzes the position of the so‒called «foreign literatures» in the university curriculum of literary studies in Argentina. Through a clipping that examines various cases in which nationality is insufficient to address the complexity of the literary text, established consensuses are reviewed and a debate that crosses the field of comparative literature is updated. This is a necessary discussion to rethink the organization of literary knowledge and the knowledge economy in the humanities and to formulate alternatives for teaching and researching literature beyond national borders, in a cosmopolitan framework, far removed from both Eurocentric brands and provincial and chauvinistic agendas.