at Google ScholarTitle data
Ndi, Gilbert Shang:
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Reimagination of Colombian Identity in the Poetry of Jorge Artel.
In: Fendler, Ute ; Kohl, Marie-Anne ; Ndi, Gilbert Shang ; Odhiambo, Christopher Joseph ; Vierke, Clarissa
(ed.):
Of Worlds and Artworks : A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora. -
Leiden ; Boston
: Brill
,
2024
. - pp. 215-235
. - (Africa Multiple
; 3
)
ISBN 978-90-04-68974-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689756_013
Abstract in another language
The literary tradition of South America has generally been imagined and legitimized in terms
of the continent’s Hispano-American cultural heritage, epistemologies, and genealogies.
Amid this hegemonic tradition, Black and Indigenous cultural presences and creative
imaginaries have been relegated in favor of Hispano-American worldviews. Artistic creations
by these “other” subjects have long been considered secondary to the Creole/mestizo canons,
and have thus not benefited from the same degree of critical attention and circulation in
mainstream literary circles. However, the trend is gradually changing, at least with regard to
Afro-Colombian literature, as new generations of creative voices have gradually gained space
and interrogated the generally accepted paradigms of Colombian identity. In the same vein,
works long shunned by critics and the reading public have been reevaluated and granted
increased editorial attention, critical scrutiny, and legitimizing awards. Jorge Artel’s poetry
reinscribes Black bodies, cultural symbols, epistemologies, and legacies of the transatlantic
slave trade into Colombian national history. His poetry, which is inscribed within the negrista
tradition, reexamines the Colombian Atlantic space, especially his home city of Cartagena de
Indias, questioning entrenched cultures of marginalization. His collection, Tambores en la
Noche (Drums in the Night), first published in 1940, can be considered a reimagination of
that city’s memorial cartography in order to underline the vestiges of enslaved Africans and
their continuous configuration of Colombian national identity
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a book |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | Sea; Ancestor; Colombia; Identity; Memory; Exclusion |
| Institutions of the University: | Research Institutions > Collaborative Research Centers, Research Unit > EXC 2052 - Africa Multiple: Afrikastudien neu gestalten |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 800 Literature > 890 Other literatures |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2024 09:24 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jun 2024 09:24 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/89655 |