CULTURAL STUDIES/CRITICAL LITERARY: AN INSUPERABLE CONTRADICTION?

Abstract

This study intends to discuss the apparent contradiction between cultural studies and literary criticism, with regard to a text by Beatriz Sarlo and two, in this case considered responses, Mabel Moraña. The proposed reading of these documents allows to consider the critical role of literary studies and, consequently, the recovery of the “aesthetic value” does not exactly exclusive or hegemonic category, but as a symbolic cultural development which tells of the controversial ideological ethics of social groups and of Latin America in general.