Dissonant epistemologies in genetic criticism

• Grant number: 21/09327-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: March 01, 2022
• End date: July 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Claudia Consuelo Amigo Pino
• Grantee: Giovani Tridapalli Kurz
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

A competent comprehension of the history of genetic criticism derives from a gaze to before its institutionalization; one must go back to long before the foundation of ITEM, in 1982, and even to the beginning of the work with Heinrich Heine's manuscripts, in 1968. It is necessary, in order to develop a diachronic and in-depth perception of the research field, to recover the ideias about literary creation that germinate since the 18th and 19th centuries. It is known today, moreover, that the history of genetic criticism in Latin America is not subsequent to, but concurrent with, its development in French territory. The initial objective of this research is to systematize the genetic research work carried out in Latin America since 1985, taking into account the same need for contextualisation that a look at the French genetics requires. We seek to compare such works with the French genetic canon, in order to highlight the epistemological differences that govern both the creative impetus and the critical gesture in each context. It is from this comparison that the difference between the two conceptions of genetic criticism will emerge with greater clarity, which will enable greater autonomy for each of them. We start with the hypothesis that the application of European genetic criticism to non-European "process documents" provokes a disjunctive reading, and that a theory developed based on local assumptions could be more adequate to this critical movement. In order to develop a systematization that accounts for the genesis and difference between the two epistemes, we revisit authors such as L. Hay, A. Grésillon, P.-M. de Biasi, P. Willemart, É. Lois, Cecilia A. Salles, Claudia A. Pino, G. Goldchluk, W. Mignolo and E. Dussel.