The National Culture as the Emerging Space of Articulation Between State and Literature in the Argentinean Independence Centennial

Abstract

In the Centennial of May’s Revolution in Argentina, at the same time that the specificity of the intellectual work is cut down in the area of “soul” activities, and the functions of the state’s policies become specialized, a new representation of national culture arises. It becomes a space for strategic interventions aimed to take care of both the new needs of the broken-down oligarchic state, and the writers’ requirements who seek a professional autonomy. The convergence of the answers of the authors involved in this new alliance with the state does not respond to the restriction of their autonomy, but to the concurrence between the questions the states poses and those which are posed from the specific historical situation of the literary activity.