Vozes na fronteira: transculturalidade nos contos de Josefina Plá

Abstract

The main purpose of this dissertation is to study the Hispano-Paraguayan writer Josefina Plá’s narratives, from the perspective of contemporary cultural studies, combining theoretical and critical orientation of comparativism in Latin America and emphasizing the revival of these theories for the approach of literary text and its linkage with the universe of culture which it interacts with. Thus, based on the concept of cultural region, the basis for the investigation of the literatures of borders, as it is the object of this dissertation, aims to examine a significant portion of Josefina Plá’s tale narrative, extracted from the Cuentos Completos (1996), the complete work of the writer, for the development of a reflection able to accept and demonstrate a course and / or common invariant in the corpus examined, considering also the multifaceted character of the artistic production of the writer and intellectual. And also emphasizing the low critical fortune about Josefina Plá; henceforward it results in an argument around the aspects of transculturallity narrative in Latin America.