TY - JOUR AU - Jabur, Nathalia PY - 2010/10/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Education as Resistance in Literary Criticism and Journalism: Between Professionalization and Democratization of Literature JF - Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy JA - Cosmos and History VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Resistance in Cultural Praxis DO - UR - https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/206 SP - 148-161 AB - <p>Professionalization and political engagement are usually placed as incompatible in the case of journalism and the mainstream press, resulting in an identification of cultural resistance exclusively with alternative/amateur vehicles. I will use the concept of journalistic field as introduced by Pierre Bourdieu to review these assumptions and discuss a form of political resistance that acts in one's own area of knowledge, is not overtly political and whose effects are not immediately accountable for.</p> <p>Drawing examples from my research on two literary newspapers published in the 1950s in Brazil and Uruguay, this paper will focus on the implications of didacticism for literary criticism as a genre of newswriting. The analysis of these newspapers will lead to a reflection on two main issues: a) the conflict between the professionalization and democratization of literature; and b) the definition of resistance as necessarily an action that is against something. The article will reconsider education in journalism as a form of resistance, taking into account its risks of becoming political indoctrination and commercial manipulation, but emphasizing its potential as a way of expanding access to literature.</p> ER -