Abstract

FANESE, Griselda. The journal Coirón (Neuquén, 1983): Writing between politics and poetics. Anclajes [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.1, pp.73-89. ISSN 1851-4669.

This work proposes a reading of those practical and discursive strategies which led the Center of Patagonian Writers (Centro de Escritores Patagónicos, CEP) to be in the center of the cultural Northpatagonian scene, in Argentina, during the transition from the last dictatorship to the return of democracy. By the journal Coirón, CEP, which had become a net spread throughout the Patagonian territory, occupied a place in the public sphere, impacted in public politics and contributed with the institution of certain conditions for a poetic and political expression. The discursive operations, presented in the first editorial of Coirón, link the interests of the group that projected and published the journal with the problem of political and cultural hegemony construction. In the transition of the dictatorship to the democracy in 1983, associations like the CEP were disputing to the public institutions the designers' role of cultural policies for the construction of community ties and the recovery of the word, after long years of paralyzed initiatives and forced silence. The discursive polyphony allows to explain the argumentative force of the speech of Coirón journal and to raise a critical analysis of the political statement in the Patagonian culture of '80.

Keywords : Journals; Patagonia; Dictatorship; Discourse; Politics.