Search

This article seeks to explore the circumstances of the rising as well as the features of bilingual poetry in guarani, considering the concepts of marginality and exception. By analysing the discourse about Paraguayan literature and studying several contemporary bilingual poetry books, we shall try to perceive how the story of this poetry is constructed and reconstructed, from the stigma of marginality and exception to the renegotiation of these notions aiming to build a poetry of the resistance.

This paper tries to understand how bilingual poetry considers relations between languages in Paraguay. In the first part, we shall introduce bilingualism’s issues and their consequences in bilingual poetry’s forms. In the second part, we shall focus on poetical discourse as dialogue’s support and developper of tensions between both languages. Finally, we shall analyze how the problematization of these linguistic relationships allows intercultural expresions that explore an anthropological and poetical thought.