Racism and recognition in a novel by Manuel Zapata Olivella

Authors

  • Luis Ernesto Valencia Angulo Universidad del Pacífico
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Abstract

This article aims to analyze how racism and recognition are represented in Manuel Zapata Olivella's literature work of Chambacú, corral de negros (1963). I argue that from the start of the novel, Manuel Zapata Olivella deals with racism as one of the main problems that have affected afrocolombians since the colonial times which left a structure that put them into misery, destroyed their ancestral culture, and denied their civil rights. Also, I explore the meaning of recognition in the novel. I think that the storyline of the novel presents valuable glances of how to understand it.

Keywords:

racism, recognition, resistance, critical self, African diaspora