Contra la mercantilización pedagógica de los manuales de Lengua y Literatura: el caso de ediciones del Eclipse (1994-2002)

Abstract

This presentation is part of an ongoing doctoral thesis titled Gender and Literature in manuals for Argentine secondary schools (1984-2011). The main objective of this research is to reconstruct the ways in which discussions about gender, during certain historical turning points, impact language and literature textbooks published for secondary school in Argentina. Specifically, this paper analyzes the characteristics of language and literature manuals published after the enactment of the Federal Law on Education in Argentina, and explains the reasons why there was an unprecedented editorial hyperproduction in those years. This article specifically analyzes the case of a publisher that, due to its particularities, is juxtaposed against what was happening in the country: the Eclipse Editorial. Particularly, the publication of the textbook Literator IV , written by Daniel Link, that deals with the issue of genres and sexualities in a groundbreaking way.