Abstract

ARMAS ALCANTARA, Luis Ernesto  and  VALENZUELA GARCES, Jorge Antonio. Subversion of the historicity marks in the New Latin American Historical Novel: Examples in I the Supreme by Roa Bastos. Desde el Sur [online]. 2023, vol.15, n.3, e0044.  Epub July 25, 2023. ISSN 2076-2674.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21142/des-1503-2023-0044.

The term "marks of historicity" was coined by Krzysztof Pomian to establish the non-fictionality of the historical text. The traditional historical novel appropriates these "marks of historicity" to give its discourse the appearance of being historical. On the other hand, the New Latin American Historical Novel, a term popularized by Seymour Menton, not only appropriates these "marks" by imitating them in form but also subverts them by applying the characteristics assigned by Menton. This is the objective of the present article. To achieve this, the methodology used was the analysis of the literary discourse present in the paratext of I the Supreme by Roa Bastos. It was primarily concluded that the New Latin American Historical Novel differs from the traditional one in that it subverts the "marks of historicity" and that it imitates them, that to subvert them resorts to parody, the carnivalesque and anachrony, and that in I the Supreme they are strategically subverted affecting its paratext.

Keywords : New Latin American Historical Novel; marks of historicity; Seymour Menton; Krzysztof Pomian; I the Supreme.

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