This article analyses the value of the literary act as an instrument for the construction of a collective identity in the work of Roa Bastos. Focusing on Bastos’ essays, I argue that, for Bastos, language and literacy are fundamental to the creation of an independent Latin-American identity and to defining the general patterns of a literary theory that is coheres with the facts and realities of contemporary Latin-America.
Carini, S., Literatura constructora de identidad: los textos no literarios de Augusto Roa Bastos, in Rumbos del hispanismo en el umbral del Cincuentenario de la AIH. VI Hispanoamérica, (Roma, 19-24 July 2010), Bagatto Libri, Roma 2012: 484-490 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/37690]
Literatura constructora de identidad: los textos no literarios de Augusto Roa Bastos
Carini, Sara
2012
Abstract
This article analyses the value of the literary act as an instrument for the construction of a collective identity in the work of Roa Bastos. Focusing on Bastos’ essays, I argue that, for Bastos, language and literacy are fundamental to the creation of an independent Latin-American identity and to defining the general patterns of a literary theory that is coheres with the facts and realities of contemporary Latin-America.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.