Abstract
When Silviano Santiago published his essay on Latin American discourse in the 1970s, the theoretical and political conjuncture was characterised by a critique of structuralism and the formation of a historical block that, in the following decade, would participate in the Brazilian constituent process: the start of a cycle. This article aims to rethink this discursivity taking into account that the context in 2020 is bringing back some of these old debates about geoeconomics dependencies. Along with the recent archives of the Casa de Rui Barbosa and some poems by Marília Garcia, Ana Estaregui and Priscilla Menezes, I seek to investigate a relation between the ways of reading archive and land, or between pedagogies and extractive practices. Following on from Silviano Santiago’s debates, read with Josefina Ludmer, we may position the emergence of an expanded concept of extraction that allows us to think about some variations in Latin American discourse.
Keywords:
Latin American discourse; extractivism; modes of reading; contemporary poetry