Literature and Peronism: configurations of popular culture in Argentine narrative of the 2000s

The main objectives of the thesis were to study the treatment of popular culture in Argentine narrative that addressed/problematized Peronism during the 2000s and to systematize the study of such literary expressions in light of the civilization/barbarism formula and the advent of Kirchnerism.

The main objectives of the thesis were to study the treatment of popular culture in Argentine narrative that addressed/problematized Peronism during the 2000s and to systematize the study of such literary expressions in light of the civilization/barbarism formula and the advent of Kirchnerism.
First, we traced a theoretical-critical path around popular culture understood as an “otherness” with respect to the cultured-civilized-literate paradigm and national, popular, and democratic movements as a “political and cultural otherness” in contrast to the conservative-liberal model. At the same time, we understand Peronism as a political, social, and cultural phenomenon that produces its own “otherness” and identify its oxymoronic logic.
Subsequently, we devoted four chapters to the analysis of the corpus. In the first, we pointed out the emergence of a certain “literary revisionism” which, framed within the Argentine post-dictatorship narrative, came to participate in the discursive front deployed around the actions of armed organizations during the 1970s. The second chapter complemented the previous one and was intended to observe the links between sexual otherness, political violence, and revolutionary militancy. The third chapter dealt with Eva Perón and her current literary relevance; there we attempted to piece together a map of the strategies employed by contemporary narrators when modeling her figure. Finally, we studied works inscribed in the new Argentine narrative; in this way, we focused our analysis on certain particularities presented by young writers when approaching Peronism and its constitutive relationships with the popular culture of the Buenos Aires suburbs.