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Racism and recognition in a novel by Manuel Zapata Olivella

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  • Luis Ernesto Valencia Angulo Universidad del Pacífico
No. 16 (2021): April-september. Dossier: "Afro-Descendant Intellectuals in Latin America and the Caribbean: Figures, Discourses and Spaces of Circulation"
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.61360

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

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Valencia Angulo, L. E. (2021). Racism and recognition in a novel by Manuel Zapata Olivella. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (16). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.61360
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