Essays
The Intellectual Writer in a Globalizing Agenda: Thoughts on the Poor on a Multicultural Market
Lucia Helena
; UNiversidade Federal Fluminense
Abstract
Taking contemporary literature into account, this article analyses the location of the intellectual writers in emergent countries in the context of the internationalization of the artistic production. The condition of the intellectual writers as individuals adrift will be here compared to their status acquired (or not) after their work is translated and spread abroad. Comparing the situation of Brazilian intellectual writers from the 1930s to 1940s to their critical fictional representation in Silviano Santiago’s Em liberdade (1981); to the situation of the writer in the early 21st century, as fictionalized in João Gilberto Noll’s Lorde (2004) and Berkeley em Bellagio (2002), this reflection asserts that a battle between the different conceptions of nationality and the powers of a utopian thought takes place in the center of the intellectual arena. The last three decades of the 20th century, fictionalized in Em liberdade, and the early years of the 21st century, represented in Noll’s novels stage both the ironic skepticism and the crisis of the triumphant utopias, as well as the clash of the intellectual writers with the issues of achieving (or not) money and status in the process of trading their cultural products inside a society ruled by groups that represent the elite of the globalized world, and whose interests lie in the acquisition of consumer goods. In relation to the internationalization of the intellectual writers in the market of the globalized academic world, it will be highlighted here that the acclaimed multiculturalism can be seen as corresponding to the "improvement of the rules" in which subjectivities succumb to a logic of the play that turn intellectual writers into losers of the globalized system, making them to replicate the roles reserved to subaltern subjects, a consequence of their submission to what is inevitable.
Keywords
intellectual writer; multiculturalism; emergent countries; globalized order; commodities; academic world
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171014
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Publication date:
18.11.2016.
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