Resumen de De la ideología a la cultura: subalternización y montaje: Yo el supremo como libro de historia
The question of the relation between history and ideology - and their respective "cinematization" - are key concerns of both Fredic Jameson, the critical theorist of postmodernism, and Augusto Roa Bastos, the Paraguayan author of Yo el Supremo (1974). For Jameson, the concern is centred on the analysis of the "warning of historicity" in the postmodern age of the simulacrum (the comodity as image). Roa Bastos, meanwhile, focuses on historiographical and narrative form from the point of view of a critique of state-centred historiography and subalternity. This article suggests that in Yo el Supremo Roa Bastos provides an answer to both the questions of the "warning of historiocity" and 'historiographical subalternization' with a form of negative montage. Thus the novel become, paradoxically, an exemplary history book.
