INTERCULTURAL POLICIES AND RHETORIC. MISIONES’ TERRITORIAL ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES

Abstract

As part of the research on territorial and intercultural landscapes, this paper is about literary, semiotic and cultural experiences on the border. At the same time it unfolds the story about exploration, collection and preservation work around author’s files that are part of Misiones’ cultural and literary heritage, and its consequent drift towards new forms of preservation and dissemination.

In this paper, we present the criteria, definitions and progress in building the territorial authors’ Bank-Archive-Library, framed in the research project Intercultural and literary Territories. Authorial files and constellations in dialogue. Its contribution is the proposal of a theoretical and methodological approach to author files, as proposed redefinition of genetic criticism postulates from a semiotic and cultural position.

In addition, our presentation will be organized from the postulation and definition of territorial authors as those writers whose productions have triggered some reflections about space and context in which literature is produced. From this perspective, Misiones’ territorial literature is not limited to mere sampling of folklore or local color; it enables conversation and critical eye with a series of identity, politics and cultural representations that trigger from strategic positions of these authors and intellectuals.

Therefore, the circulation of critical discourses that problematize the relations between literary writing and cultural practices will accompany Bank’s construction. These archive collected works (books, magazines, anthologies, etc.) by Misiones’ authors but also considered their personal files –with the consequent selection, digitization and critical analysis– that enable to rebuild profiles, images and multiple representations of these authors, managers and territorial producers.