“Guarani is a pentagram”. Artifices and oscillations of Guaraní philology in Paraguay at the beginning of the 20th century
The study of the Guaraní language from a philological perspective grew up between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. In our opinion, scholarly interest in this language responded to a specific situation where the predominance of positivism allowed new linguistic a...
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I10-R10-article-357382021-12-14T13:25:01Z “Guarani is a pentagram”. Artifices and oscillations of Guaraní philology in Paraguay at the beginning of the 20th century “El guaraní es un pentagrama”. Artificios y vaivenes de la filología guaraní en el Paraguay de inicios del siglo XX Villalba Rojas, Rodrigo Nicolás guarani language intellectuals philology spelling standardization lengua guaraní intelectuales filología ortografía normativización The study of the Guaraní language from a philological perspective grew up between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. In our opinion, scholarly interest in this language responded to a specific situation where the predominance of positivism allowed new linguistic and literary approaches, but sought give Guarani a positive value that would contradict the label of “language of barbarians” that weighed on it. However, the process of reconstructing the national prestige of the language went through different problems related to writing and spelling norms. The aim of this article is to analyze some episodes and intellectual roles that comprised the new interest in Guarani as an object of study, and which served as a counterforce for the emergence of a national writing and literature in the non-indigenous Guarani language during the first decades of the twentieth century. In this analysis we will relate a series of texts of various origins that we will approach from the perspective of Latin American Cultural Studies. This perspective will help us to understand what processes, representations and ideologies about community, language and history come into tension with regard to the language question. El estudio de la lengua guaraní con una perspectiva filológica floreció entre fines del siglo XIX y las primeras décadas del XX. A nuestro entender, el interés erudito sobre la lengua respondió a una coyuntura específica donde el predominio del positivismo permitía nuevos abordajes en materia de estudios lingüísticos y literarios, pero buscó otorgar al guaraní un valor positivo que contradijera al calificativo de “lengua de bárbaros” que pesaba sobre ella. Con todo, el proceso de reconstrucción del prestigio nacional de la lengua atravesó diferentes problemáticas ligadas a las normas de escritura y ortografía. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar algunos episodios y los roles intelectuales que comprendieron el nuevo interés en el guaraní como objeto de estudio, y que hicieron de contrafuertes para la emergencia de una escritura y una literatura nacional en lengua guaraní no indígena durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX. En dicho análisis se pondrán en relación una serie de textos de varia procedencia que abordaremos desde el enfoque de los estudios culturales latinoamericanos. Esta perspectiva nos ayudará a comprender qué procesos, representaciones e ideologías sobre la comunidad, la lengua y la historia entran en tensión a propósito de la cuestión de la lengua. Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2021-12-14 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/35738 Recial; Vol. 12 Núm. 20 (2021): Dossier: Literatura y enfermedad en América Latina; 231-250 2718-658X 1853-4112 10.53971/2718.658x.v12.n20 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/35738/36251 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/35738/36252 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
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The study of the Guaraní language from a philological perspective grew up between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. In our opinion, scholarly interest in this language responded to a specific situation where the predominance of positivism allowed new linguistic and literary approaches, but sought give Guarani a positive value that would contradict the label of “language of barbarians” that weighed on it. However, the process of reconstructing the national prestige of the language went through different problems related to writing and spelling norms. The aim of this article is to analyze some episodes and intellectual roles that comprised the new interest in Guarani as an object of study, and which served as a counterforce for the emergence of a national writing and literature in the non-indigenous Guarani language during the first decades of the twentieth century. In this analysis we will relate a series of texts of various origins that we will approach from the perspective of Latin American Cultural Studies. This perspective will help us to understand what processes, representations and ideologies about community, language and history come into tension with regard to the language question. |
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