Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005), winner of the prestigious Cervantes prize, is one of the most important Latin American writers of the twentieth century. This commemorative collection consists of articles by nine scholars reflecting upon the postmodern nature of the Paraguayan author s literary production and his place in world literature. The volume includes articles on the author s screenplays, his masterpiece, the dictator novel I The Supreme, his short stories, feminist approaches to Roa Bastos s novels, reflections on the writer s Guarani poetry, and a study of the complex, intertextual relationships between his novel El fiscal and his other texts.

Autorentext
HELENE CAROL WELDT-BASSON, Associate Professor at Wayne State University, USA.

Inhalt
Poetry's Expository Function in Contexts of Linguistic Inequality: The Guarani Verse of Augusto Roa Bastos; T.K.Lewis Augusto Roa Bastos and Argentine Film; D.W.Foster Postmodernism and its Signs in 'Juegos nocturnos' by Augusto Roa Bastos; F.Burgos Rhizomatic Writing in Augusto Roa Bastos's Short Stories; F.R.Nogueira Gender and the State in Hijo de hombre : Transgression and Integration; K. MacLean Verba volant, scripta manent: Orality and Literacy in I the Supreme; G.Verdesio Tyranny and Foundation: Appropriations of the Hero and Re-readings of the Nation in Augusto Roa Bastos and Jean-Claude Fignolé; J. Uriarte Rewriting in Roa Bastos's Late Fiction: 'El ojo de la luna,' El Fiscal , and Los conjurados del Quilombo del Gran Chaco; J.C.Guerrero All Women are Whores: Prostitution, Female Archetypes, and Feminism in the Works of Augusto Roa Bastos; H.C.Weldt-Basson