“You Are the Prisoner, the Discoverer, the Founder, the Liberator”: Contextualizing Decolonial Paths of Afro-Hispanic Literature in Latin America, Equatorial Guinea and Spain
Elisa Rizo Similar to Zapata Olivella’s narrative, Avila Laurel’s poem attempts to cut across organizational principles of time and place in order to establish a relational understanding of today’s globalized society. It is important to note here that there are other writers from Equatorial Guinea interested in this trend, like Recaredo Silebo Boturu, José Fernando Siale, and others who live in Spain permanently, like Remei Sipi, Justo Bolekia, Francisco Zamora, and Donato Ndongo. Finally, writing in the economically troubled contemporary Spain, Afro-Costa Rican dramatist and narrator Denise Duncan also shows a preference for realist literary depictions. Through the racial and ethnic-based fears of rejection and violence endured by the female characters, her recent plays, “Latinas” and “Negra or Nocturnal for a Skin Inoculated by Our Daily Hate” examine modern European society’s obsession with the immigrants’ darker female body. Considered together, a great many Afro-Hispanic works of fiction from Latin America, Equatorial Guinea and Spain engage in an analytical-realist project geared to identify and question well-established Western ideas that enable the oppression of specific sectors of the world’s population, especially peoples of Black African descent. Importantly, the transnational, transcontinental, transhistorical, and translinguistic possibilities presented by Ngugi in his globalectic method facilitate the recognition of Afro Hispanic literatures as a textual realm where South to South dialogues flow. Indeed, Afro-Hispanic realist works offer a crucial explanation of society; because writers, as Ngugi explains about the novelists, “(…) see patterns and connections that their mind helps coalesce into something that transcends the individual particular objects of their senses into a kind of universality.” (16) To be sure, Ngugi’s Globalectics opens a road for appreciation of Afro-Hispanic literatures’ geopolitical range, thematic breadth, independence from discourses of national identity, and tendency to explain local situations referring to (but not depending on) the logics of the current world-order. In short, a globalectic reading of Afro-Hispanic literature reveals its transcontinental paths of decolonial thinking. Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 |
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