On the margins, a criticism: interview with Beatriz Sarlo

Abstract

By making the relations between culture and politics an act of complicity, Beatriz Sarlo is one of the most prominent names in the Ce22nário of Argentine literary criticism and, especially, in the debates of what has been conventionally called Latin American cultural Studies. Born in 1942 in Buenos Aires, and descended from immigrant families, she graduated in letters from the University of Buenos Aires in the year 1966, when the Argentine military dictatorship began. During the authoritarian period (1966-1973/1976-1983), on the sidelines of the university and continuing academic training, he developed activities in editorial groups and in literary and cultural criticism magazines, "alternative" spaces that were decisive in his Intellectual training.