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Chango, Decolonizing the African Diaspora (Hardcover)
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Chango, Decolonizing the African Diaspora (Hardcover)
Series: Decolonizing the Classics
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The crowning achievement of Afro-Colombian author Manuel Zapata
Olivella, Chango, Decolonizing the African Diaspora depicts the
African American experience from a perspective of gods who stand
over the world and watch. The centennial anniversary release of
this ground-breaking postcolonial text remains a passionate tour de
force to make sense of our past, present, and future. A new
introduction by Professor William Luis positions the book in
contemporary politics and reasserts this book's importance in
Afro-Spanish American literature. Ranging from Brazil to New
England but centered in the Caribbean, where countless enslaved
people once arrived from West Africa, this book recounts scenes
from four centuries of involuntary displacement and servitude of
the muntu, the people. Through the voices of Benkos Biojo in
Colombia, Henri Christophe in Haiti, Simon Bolivar in Venezuela,
Jose Maria Morelos in Mexico, the Aleijadinho in Brazil, or Malcolm
X in Harlem, Zapata Olivella conveys, in luminous verse and prose,
the breadth of heroism, betrayal, and suffering common to the
history of people of African descent in the Western hemisphere.
Readers and critics of postcolonial literatures will relish the
opportunity to experience Zapata Olivella's masterpiece in English;
students of world cultures will appreciate this extraordinary
tapestry, woven from equal strands of myth and history.
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