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VILLALBA ROJAS, Rodrigo Nicolás. Guarani Poetry of In-between Places. From the Language(s) to the Articulations of the National Myth in the Songbook Ocara Potÿ, by Narciso R. Colmán. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2022, vol.24, n.2, pp.201-236.  Epub 23-Ago-2022. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v24n2.102105.

This article aims, firstly, to recover a part of the Narciso R. Colmárís poetic work that has never been republished, the folk songbook Ocara potÿ (1917, 1921), the first book of poems in Guarani published in Paraguay. Secondly, it provides a way of approaching the work starting from the analysis and relationship between literary procedures and representations on language, subjects, and nation from the point of view of Latin American Cultural Studies. In this sense we recover the background of this literature in Guarani and then we reflect on the construction of poetry as a space of crossing of the most spoken languages in Paraguay, Guarani, and Spanish, but also as a place in-between where representations about the community (peasant/urban) and national motifs are in tension. Our analysis reveals how this "folkloric" poetry transcends the costumbrista motif and articulates meanings that interact with the national myth from the edges of power.

Palabras clave : Songbook; War of the Triple Alliance; literature in Guarani; nation; Paraguay.

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