PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Pedro Meira Monteiro
TI  - Literatura e resistência
AID  - 10.1353/lbr.2013.0036
DP  - 2013 Dec 01
TA  - Luso-Brazilian Review
PG  - 64--75
VI  - 50
IP  - 2
4099  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/50/2/64.short
4100  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/50/2/64.full
SO  - Luso-Braz Rev2013 Dec 01; 50
AB  - This article aims at putting Alfredo Bosi’s work in dialogue with well-known theoretical trends in the English-speaking academia. I trace the steps I’ve taken to make some of Bosi’s reflections available to an English-speaking audience, and raise a few questions: In the discussion on the “coloniality of power,” which brings together “Postcolonial” and “Subaltern Studies”, can Bosi’s criticism play a role? What contribution can his “counter-ideological” critique make to an academic environment radically different from the one where it originated? Can a subaltern academic field speak? Finally, I focus on some of the foundations of Bosi’s view and conclude with a discussion of the place of the margins in his thought, thus identifying what makes it at once distant from and close to a deconstructionist claim on the transitory nature of the subaltern subject.