Abstract

CARRILLO, Ana Lorena. Dialogism and Historiographics Texts from Guatemala. Tóp. Sem [online]. 2009, n.21, pp.163-179. ISSN 2594-0619.

In its first part, the article discusses some of the implications of the operativity of Mikhail Bakhtin's proposals for the study of historical texts. Dialogism, as a category that emphasizes the complex relationships between times, spaces and dissimilar processes that converge in different levels of culture, permits us to situate the practice of historiography and its texts in that space. The proximity of these abovementioned categories with others that have been produced from Latin American cultural criticism increases their capacity to give an account of the particular societies in the region where narrative provides an answer to their problems by emphasizing precisely those relationships and convergences. In the second part, the article analyzes two emblematic texts of Guatemalan historiography from the second half of the twentieth century following Bakthtin's suggestive theoretical proposals and Latin American criticism. The result is a reading that modernizes those legacies by confirming in the analysis what can also be observed in the analyzed texts: complex societies like that of Guatemala or those of other Latin American countries understand each other and explain in conflicting articulations between the past, and the present that is already affected by it.