Tertulias Literarias Dialógicas: transformaciones sociales y personales. Dialogic Literary Gatherings: social and personal transformations

Since their creation in 1978 at the La Verneda-Sant Marti Adult School, located in one of the most disadvantaged and marginalized neighborhoods of Barcelona at the time, Dialogical Literary Gatherings (DLG) have generated social transformations in diverse contexts, in different countries, with people from different socioeconomic and educational levels and of different ages. Since then they have challenged racist and classist theories of structuralist and poststructuralist schools of thought that deny people from low SES backgrounds the possibility of reading and enjoying the best literary works of humanity. However, DLG defend and promote the literary freedom of all people, thus managing to overcome power interactions and carry out profound social and personal transformations.