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“The letter as an instrument of combat of the black people”: Manuel Zapata Olivella and the magazine Letras Nacionales

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  • Denilson Lima Santos Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira
No. 16 (2021): April-september. Dossier: "Afro-Descendant Intellectuals in Latin America and the Caribbean: Figures, Discourses and Spaces of Circulation"
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.61358

Abstract

Literature in Latin America allows us to know different ways to reframe life through arts. In these many ways, we find in Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920-2004) the expression of the political-aesthetic position of Afro-descendant culture in Colombia, specifically by the magazine Letras Nacionales. Zapata Olivella founded this magazine in 1965 and he managed it until 1970. In this context, this essay is concerned with discussing the relationship between the aforementioned publication and the dissemination of Afro-Latin American culture through literature and the theoretical-conceptual studies of Sociology of Literature. Thus, we present issues of black Colombian literature as a possibility of knowing the African presence here in the Americas.

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Lima Santos, D. (2021). “The letter as an instrument of combat of the black people”: Manuel Zapata Olivella and the magazine Letras Nacionales. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (16). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.61358
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