Governing the Voice: Writing and Orality in El desierto prodigioso y prodigio del desierto
The purpose of this article is to approach the intentionality of the intervened writing in El desierto prodigioso y prodigio del desierto from a reading proposal where orality and the government of the Creole voice are determinant for the understanding of a Creole ethos that is constructed in the work as a scriptural project. This proposal is developed taking as research material the poetic sensibility exposed by the characters and the appeal to corporeality in the work, two perspectives that allow to deepen in a construction of the exercise of government in the proposal of Pedro de Solís y Valenzuela. The writing framed in a religious panorama, necessary for the time, also indicates the writer’s place of enunciation and the need for the mastery of poetic registers and resources for the construction of the meaning of government. The use of wit for the exploration of self-mastery and the construction of a subjectivity lead to the recognition of the Creole voice as an investigative proposal.