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LISTENING: LITERATURE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES With regard to the counsel provided
by the sociologist in terms of the focus of the dialog between the writers
and the senex chosen by the host writer, the meaning of ethnography and
psychoanalysis will be taken into account as arts of listening and as
strategies for the exploration of deep structures. Needless to say, these
arts/sciences hav the advantage of being situated in a terrain which is
very close to that of literature, as has been expressed in an extensive
bibliography. Even from a literary perspective, there is an ethnographic
understanding as a literary theme, which may be traced primarily in a
brief yet formidable text written by Borges and titled, precisely, The
Ethnographer. The importance of a sociological vision
lies in the tracing of a comparative profile of the societies, from a
perspective of memory and future, as well as from a critical view of the
urbanization processes, the urban-rural relationship, the effect of globalization,
power structures, the state of education, governance, and the cultural
atmosphere of the host cities. The dynamic and intimate exchange proposed
by ENTRESURES, is based on the reciprocal art of listening, as a fundamental
element of the development of the project itself, as well as in order
to establish alternative, affective and enduring ties, via distribution
strategies focused on bartering and gift-giving, as well as via an essential
aspect of the project: the coming together of generations and the exploration
of our living history, of an autobiographical history. The support and company of the sociologist
will serve to trace a comparative framework of the past and the present
in our societies, with records centering on the investigation of hopes,
projects and visions of the future, taking into account the proximity
of the bicentennial celebration of the declarations of independence throughout
Latin America. As is the case with literary efforts that bring together
a senex and youth, ENTRESURES seeks to explore, not in an individual manner,
but rather in a collective one, a sort of retro/prospective memory and
thus one which reviews the national courses undertaken during the two
hundred years since the declarations of independence, projecting horizons
with a direction. To quote Jorge Luis Borges, in a comment
regarding his native Argentina (Evaristo Carriego, Alianza Editorial,
Madrid, 1998. pp 19-20): “…only new countries have a past;
which is to say, an autobiographical memory of it, which is to say, they
have a living history. If time is succession, we must acknowledge that
where there is a greater density of events, more time flows and that the
deepest river is that of this inconsequential part of the world. […]
The young, despite themselves, feel it. Here, we are of the same time
as time, we are the brothers of time.” |