The Writer’s Commitment to Postmodern Latin American Society and Politics.

Abstract

This paper questions the role of the committed writer in a postmodern era characterized by
diversity, the absence of criteria, conceptual relativism, banality in politics, unbridled
consumerism, and the reductionism of the boundaries between the public and the private. For
this, Latin America will become a benchmark, from the perspectives of Avelar, Cornejo Polar,
Sarlo and Jameson. And the hypothesis will be raised that the reader has not distanced himself
from what the ruling class offers to mass culture. Rather, it will be necessary to redirect that
responsibility to writers and intellectuals, who are capable of revealing the true mishaps of
society and that harm the concept of culture (and Literature). For this reason, committed
participation will be proposed as a solution according to Gramsci, since it incorporates the
ideology that the discourse possesses and its transfer in interdisciplinary spaces.