El giro marginal: desrradicalización del compromiso del intelectual a través de la lectura de la producción cultural en Venezuela entre 1950 y 1980

During the second half of the twentieth century it is visible an intellectual's movement from the anti- to the de-colonial stance, which can be described as a de-radicalization process due to the Latin American left crisis after the 1980s. Latin American thought has been characterised by its political engagement. Delimiting this research by time and space, Venezuela after the 1950s, some cultural texts (most of them literary) will be analysed to see how they transform its speech due to the global circumstances. This de-radicalization turn is in fact the replacement of the revolutionary aesthetics for the decolonial/postmodern aesthetics, which is a strategy to resignify the colonial heritage. Besides the political commitment of the intellectuals/academics, Latin American thought is also known because of the search of the authenticity and its regional identity: how to interconnect the local with the global, the national with the international, the rural with the urban and the oral with the written. If we accept Immanuel Wallerstein concept of globalisation and his Modern- World-System theory, we can see how it already began in the colonial time. It can be said that during a half millennium, Latin America has been producing cultural objects defined by a transcultural process. But in the last decades, the migration movements of Latin American intellectuals to the USA and the emergence of the post-theories caused a trans-located epistemology which tries to think the abandoned region, without forgetting this new enunciation place. Artists groups such as Sardio, El Techo de la Ballena or Tabla Redonda, all of them of the 1960s in Venezuela, tried to solve the problem of the centre/periphery and the local/global. Depending on our looking glass, these artists are pro-subalternity rather than just anti-colonialists.