“El Guarani that Vienna me, Hormiga, tahi?”: the writing alternative and knowledge located in mar Paraguayo

Abstract

The work Mar paraguayo (1992), by Wilson Bueno, is disconcerting if examined as a whole. recent prose of Brazilian literature, as it brings elements out of the commonly anticipated, much on accountof its language, which mixes languages (Portuguese, Spanish, Guarani) and does not fit pre-established models. These questions involve the fact that the narrator character is a Paraguayan prostitute of Guarani origin, who performs his oralized speech in Portuguese and in his mother tongue, mixing elements of Western culture and culture indigenous, little valued in a westernized society. Support for interculturality was sought (WALSH, 2009) and in the decolonization of thought (CUSICANQUI, 2010) as a way to claim cultural plurality presented in the work, highlighting the character's Guarani origin and the geoculturally situated way of thinking (KUSCH, 2007), mediated by emotions. In this sense, the work was considered as an alternative written literature (LIENHARD, 1990), since it presents elements that make up Amerindian identities. For literary studies, points to the possibility of integrating / interacting knowledge of relational ontologies (ESCOBAR, 2016), important for facing problems that have afflicted the planet, given the relationships of (co) experience between the peoples, between beings and between them and nature.