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Spanish

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10.4000/lirico.79

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10.4000/lirico.79

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Rare Uruguay. New sights

Abstract

dedicating a volume to the rare Uruguayan people evokes a tradition of precise Latin American literary criticism. Both Rubén Darío com Ángel Rama questioned the conditions governing the levy and included in its anthologies authors which had been excluded from it. With these “new insights”, we want to continue to problematic a notion which, in the case of Uruguay’s literature, is no longer marginal to transit to the centre; it would then be a paradoxically excentric centre. The word ‘rare’ has become a common qualifier in the landscape of Uruguay’s current literary criticism to refer to writers and works whose only link to one another appears to be to be part of that vague category. The contradiction is that ‘being rare’ reflects both exclusion and inclusion dynamics. Hence, rather than accepting the term or taking its meaning for granted, the authors here together intend to revise it from a contemporary perspective covering theoretical positions and different places (Uruguay, France, the United States, Spain) in order to disentangle its meaning today. In the various articles the concept is rethought, criticised, remeaningful and even discarded. The particularity is to question the value of ‘rare’ in a Uruguay literary field which appears to have been particularly receptive to that notion.

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