A força do texto literário para uma Educação Intercultural. Breves leituras de Puig, Lemebel e Cucurto

Abstract

Literary texts have always been present in my undergraduate classes, because I consider them essential to understanding the ways of life of people from the Hispanic world, as I am a Spanish language teacher. For many years I have been divided between the literary and cultural productions that I need to prioritize in Undergraduate courses, where my focus is on teacher training, and Applied Linguistics, a line of research in which I work in Postgraduate studies. Literary texts, for this reason, have always been, for me, a resource in establishing this dialogue between areas, at first glance, so disparate. Starting from this place of professional and academic action, I propose to reflect on the intersection between music and literature, but taking the literary text as the first form, which dialogues with the musical text, conducting this discussion from three places of enunciation, but always taking music as a backdrop: tango in the literature of Manuel Puig; protest music in the literature of Pedro Lemebel and cumbia in the literature of Washington Cucurto. At the same time, I will associate this discussion with the proposal for intercultural education, understood as decolonial praxis.