Abstract
When discussing different ways of achieving literary success, anomymous texts and obscure authors who come from orality and try to reach their audiences through precarious publishing houses face serious difficulties. Firstly, we have payadores, who around 1885, as they were entering their heyday in Argentina and Uruguay, tried to get out of orality and reach the status of poet denied to them from those who were established as practitioners of the poetic discourse in written form. Secondly, we have two different kinds of practitioners of the humble flier or occasional journalism. These media tried to reach a scarcely literatized audience in order to gain political influence over it. Moving on this porous border explore some topics between orality and literacy are explored, topics crossed by the elusive concept of the “popular” (always enclosed in quotation marks here for that reason).
Keywords
Popular Poetry; Oral performance; Literature