FROM ÑANDUTI TO CERAMIC

representações da identidade paraguaia em Josefina Plá

Abstract

This essay addresses the influences and contributions of the artisan, writer, art critic and feminist Josefina Plá to Paraguayan culture, especially the production of ñanduti and ceramics. The study presents Josefina Plá's itinerary in Paraguay since her arrival from Spain, as well as her impressions and poetic-existential anxieties based on the poems Perdóname and La Carreta. Historical-sociological and anthropological aspects that shaped – and still shape – the current identities in Paraguay are also discussed, notably regarding issues relating to the social constructs that permeate the notion of Paraguay, having as a guiding thread ñanduti lace, ceramics and hybridizations and transculturalities of Paraguayan culture with the original Guarani people and Spain.