Roberto Elvira Mathez

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The Aleph Villero is a proyect based on archival and digital humanities around the literature produced from the Argentinean Villas. To defy preconceived notions of class, culture and literacy, we must make visible many authors eroded from literary historiography. For this we must engage in archival research on material that are presupposed as inexistent. That is the case of literature produced in the villas of Argentina. By mapping out local municipal libraries, cultural centers and households in which this archive might be dispersed, in different urban setting as Buenos Aires, Bariloche and Bahia Blanca, we plan to upload to a digital public platform the findings. We would be able to challenge the theoretical prerogative that this literature has sprung over night as a consequence of the neoliberal policies, arguing for its longer and more complex history. Also, from the digital humanities counterpoint, we want to forward theory on the digitalization of an archive that has never had a legitimized material base, in contrast to most digital academic projects. In this sense, not only could it question past prejudice on the possibilities of literature of different social settings, but also enable for the construction of a future focal point in which poets, narrators and other diverse creators, could meet and exhibit their work into a much bigger scale that the current editing world prohibits. 

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