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AGUILERA NAVARRETE, Flor Esther. Between orality and writing: a poetics of power in Yo el Supremo, by Augusto Roa Bastos. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2021, n.22, pp.7-33.  Epub 18-Jun-2021. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.vi22.328.

This article aims to reflect on the power struggle that is configured in I the Supreme (1974), of the Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos, through orality and writing, mainly following the studies of Mijail Bajtin and Angel Rama as the methodological framework. The oral and written dichotomy creates tension between the conflicting presence of Guarani language, relegated to the condition of orality, and Spanish, a language that is symbol of colonization and domination, in order to explain that I, the Supreme presents a scathing critique of how the native culture of Paraguay has been relegated. This evidences a transgressor speech that is meant to break canon, the official writing that according to the novel, has been imposed by the scriptural domination.

Palabras llave : Orality; Writing; Dichotomy; Colonization; Transgressive speech; Social criticism.

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