scholarly journals Violencia y religación caribeña: Bicentenaire de Lyonel Trouillot

Letras (Lima) ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 92 (136) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Francisco Aiello

La literatura haitiana contemporánea ofrece una visión interior de una muy dinámica cultura, que requiere de una constante elaboración estética capaz que ofrecer líneas de sentido que permite un acercamiento a su complejidad. Este trabajo analiza la novela del escritor haitiano Lyonel Trouillot Bicentenaire (2004). Se trata de un autor que ha desarrollado toda su amplia trayectoria literaria, aún en crecimiento, dentro del país, lo cual no es un dato menor dado hay colegas de Haití que, por residir en el extranjero, han tenido el beneficio de medios de mayor circulación. El texto que nos ocupa ficcionaliza la jornada de protestas que tuvieron lugar en Puerto Príncipe el 1 de enero de 2004 —fecha en la que se conmemora el bicentenario de la declaración de la independencia haitiana— contra el presidente Jean Bertrand Aristide, quien finalmente abandonó el poder unos días después. No obstante, nuestro interés consiste en examinar vínculos intertextuales de muy variado tratamiento discursivo con textos caribeños (canciones interpretadas por Bob Marley, la novela Crónica de una muerte anunciada de Gabriel García Márquez y el drama Une tempête de Aimé Césaire como una estrategia religadora que procura inscribir la problemática de la violencia en el contexto mayor de la cultura del Caribe. Esa heterogeneidad no impide constatar dinámicas comunes que el texto de Trouillot busca poner en relación a partir de las remisiones a otros textos.

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
Edouard Glissant
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2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Jeremy Patterson
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2021 ◽  
pp. 019145372110175
Author(s):  
Betty Jean Stoneman

Jean-Paul Sartre’s failures in Black Orpheus have been widely and rightly explicated by a number of theorists, most notably Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire. Sartre has rightly been criticized for imposing a white gaze onto his reading of colonized African poetry. It would seem that his work offers us no tools for anti-racist work today. For this article, I read his failures in the text alongside his work in The Imaginary and Being and Nothingness to argue that we can learn from his failures and that his failures do offer us conceptual tools for anti-racist work today. I argue that Sartre’s main contribution ought to be understood as a provocation to white people. He is provoking white people to confront how whiteness works in their imaginary. The imaginary is nothing but what one puts into it, and what one puts into it is imbued with the historical, social and cultural. The image is imbued with the individual’s experiences within a historical, social and cultural situation. If this is the case, then the confrontation with and critique of the image is a political act. In confronting and critiquing the image, one is confronting and critiquing the situation in which the image emerges. The hope is that in doing so, white people could transcend the facticity of their whiteness in particular situations for the better, which in turn would have positive consequences for the larger sociopolitical situation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-209
Author(s):  
Jeong Eun Annabel We

This article argues that the spirit of Bandung’s relevance in a time of resurgent fascist mobilization is in the new logic of movement that the 1955 Afro-Asian conference in Bandung, Indonesia espoused. The critiques of liberal humanism and its relation to fascism by Ernst Bloch, Takeuchi Yoshimi, and Aimé Césaire reveal that an underlying problem of coloniality and movement remain in current paradigm of liberalism. The article situates conceptual reworkings of colonial-fascist movement by the thinkers Takeuchi Yoshimi, Frantz Fanon, and Ch’oe In-Hun within the trajectory of the spirit of Bandung. Through this engagement, the article argues that the spirit of Bandung has called for revolutionary movement beyond the grids of colonial mobility in the transpacific.


2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-297
Author(s):  
Isabelle Constant
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