Tiempo e historia en De cuando en cuando Saturnina

This paper rises from a reflection on the notion of ‘time’, ‘history’, and ‘past’ starting from an analysis of the science fiction novel De cuando en cuando Saturnina -Saturnina from time to time- Una historia oral del futuro (2004), written by Alison Spedding (Belper, Inglaterra, 1962). In particular, it will be shown how the novel to dispute the historical narrative and the temporal linearity, and advance an acute social criticism of the contemporany Bolivia and, above all, against the hierarchies of power in its intersectionality of ‘race’, class and gender, as historical constructions that legitimize social inequalities. Finally, this article aims to explore the narrative mechanisms through which the ideas of oral “counter-history” and Aymara temporal “concentricity” are reflected in the novel, at a structural and thematic level.