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Fajardo Salinas, J. M. (2024). Elaboration of Educational—Cultural Objects from the Literary Postmodernity of Paul Auster. Revista Guillermo De Ockham, 22(1), 117–131. https://doi.org/10.21500/22563202.6682 (Original work published February 12, 2024)
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Abstract

Taking as a broad context the notion of “Latin American cultural space”, this reflection seeks to discover some basic conditions of possibility so that those who have the initiative to create contemporary educational-cultural objects may have some keys of meaning to guide their work, both for the conception, design, promotion and, above all, the effectiveness of their attempt. This objective leads to a hermeneutic revision, in a cultural key, of a selection of novels by the American writer Paul Auster. The hypothesis that guides the journey through the plots and characters of these works is to consider that their configuration and dynamism point to the postmodern, considered as distinctive of the contemporary cultural epoch. In this way, and after analyzing the author's works, where cultural features tending to the postmodern are collected, we reflect with some theoreticians on concepts that help to configure an intelligent synthesis of the previous. Thanks to this, it is conceived that in the face of the dislocation of the modern meta-narrative, postmodernity cultivates a renewed conception of emancipation that tends to manifest itself in artistic aesthetics with a post-autonomy logic. Thanks to these connotations of meaning, it is possible to suggest certain preconditions of action for the support of contemporary educational-cultural creation. This is significant for the intercultural movement because, in the search for a plural coexistence in a common world, it is favorable to count on orientations that help to better identify contemporary cultural subjects and thus offer them their proposal from a pertinent and accessible language to their sensibility.

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