Caetano Veloso e a viravolta da cultura: dispositivos de leitura de Silviano Santiago

Resumo: Pretendo analisar, neste artigo, o dispositivo de leitura engendrado por Silviano Santiago em sua investigacao da viravolta cultural que reposiciona os estudos literarios e as relacoes entre arte e politica no final da decada de 1970 no Brasil. Tomo como corpus tres ensaios de Santiago, elaborados em diferentes momentos de sua trajetoria intelectual, a partir dos quais busco identificar procedimentos criticos comuns que caracterizam um modo singular de aproximacao do objeto, a um so tempo difuso e agudo, cuja recorrencia revela uma obsessao do critico pelas inflexoes e pelos descentramentos na ordem da cultura. A enfase recai na figura de Caetano Veloso e de sua atitude antropofagica cujo trabalho, em confluencia com o de Santiago, conjuga elementos de diferentes registros culturais, de modo a revelar as ambiguidades e os paradoxos instituidos entre o campo estetico e o politico, entre a arte e a cultura, no processo de modernizacao conservadora da sociedade brasileira. Palavras-chave: Caetano Veloso; entre-lugar; antropofagia; tropicalismo; industria cultural. Abstract: This article aims at analyzing the reading device created by Silviano Santiago in his investigation of the cultural turning point that repositioned literary studies and the relations between Art and Politics in the late 1970s in Brazil. This article elects three essays by Santiago, elaborated at different moments of his intellectual trajectory, from which I seek to identify common critical procedures that characterize a singular manner of approaching the object. Its recurrence reveals an obsession of the critic for the inflections and decentrations in the order of culture. The emphasis is on the figure of Caetano Veloso and his anthropophagic attitude. Velosos’s work, in confluence with that of Santiago, combines elements of different cultural records, in order to reveal the ambiguities and paradoxes established between the aesthetic and the political field, between art and culture, in the process of conservative modernization of Brazilian society. Keywords: Caetano Veloso; in-between; anthropophagy; tropicalism; cultural industry.