Literary theory as a form of public interven- tion. Theoretical issues, argentinian examples and a case: the Cuban magazine Diáspora(s)

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze some uses of literary theory in Latin America. In the first part, I reflect on the theory, ethics and relationship that literary theory maintains with society. From this, I formulate the hypothesis that the theory is a way of intervening in the social. In the second part, I brie fly review some uses of the sociology of culture that we remade in Argentina in the 1980s and 1990s. In the fourth part, I propose to test the hypothesis through an analysis of the Cuban magazine Diáspora(s), published between 1997 and 2002.