Changó, Decolonizing the African Diaspora (Decolonizing the Classics) - Image 1

£137.61

Routledge Changó, Decolonizing the African Diaspora (Decolonizing the Classics)

Name: Chango, Decolonizing the African Diaspora (Decolonizing the Classics)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 133.4 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 67 days • 67 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 67 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £138 (47 days, 70.1%)

Price range: £133 - £138

Price levels: 2 different prices over 67 days

Description

Product Description The crowning achievement of Afro-Colombian author Manuel Zapata Olivella, Changó 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 slaves 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. About the Author Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920–2004), hailed by critic Richard Jackson as “the dean of Black Hispanic writers,” was the author of more than a dozen novels as well as numerous essays and short stories, including A Saint Is Born in Chimá and Chambacú, Black Slum. One of six children in a Colombian literary family, Zapata Olivella initially pursued medical training at the National University of Bogotá but interrupted his studies to write and travel. From the 1940s through the 1990s he explored not only the folklore and ethnography of his native country but an expansive range of international social and political themes. His work garnered prestigious literary awards worldwide, including the Símon Bolívar Prize, the Casa de las Américas Prize, and the Parisian Human Rights Prize. Jonathan Tittler is Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Rutgers University–Camden. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic literature from Cornell University and is the author of four books, including the political-literary biography “El verbo y el mando: Vida y milagros de Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazábal” (Language and Power: The Life and Times of Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazábal) and numerous articles in the field of contemporary Latin American literature. He has previously translated two Afro-Hispanic novels into English: Juyungo, by Adalberto Ortiz, and Chambacú, Black Slum, also by Zapata Olivella.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0367756579
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 September 2021
Listed Since: 28 January 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Changó, Decolonizing the African Diaspora (Decolonizing the Classics)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Challenging the Black Atlantic: The New World Novels of Zapata Olivella and Gonçalves

Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media

Resistance and Decolonization (Reinventing Critical Theory)

The Poet's Prose and Other Essays: Race, National Identity, and Diaspora in the Americas

Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film: A Study in Globalectics (Routledge Contemporary Africa)

Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation (Black Literary and Cultural Expressions)

The Idea of Latin America (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos)

Africa's Social and Religious Quest: A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of the African Situation

Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom: Latin American Authors and the Western Canon

Michael Chabon's America: Magical Words, Secret Worlds, and Sacred Spaces (Contemporary American Literature)

Geopolitics and Decolonization: Perspectives from the Global South (Global Critical Caribbean Thought)

The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945

Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 (American Literatures Initiative)

Routledge - The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings

The Law Unbound!: A Richard Delgado Reader

New Social Movements in the African Diaspora: Challenging Global Apartheid (Critical Black Studies)

Cengage Major Problems in African American History Textbook

Roberto Bolaño as World Literature (Literatures as World Literature)

Law Unbound!: A Richard Delgado Reader

Beyond the Doctrine of Man: Decolonial Visions of the Human

The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions: Aesthetics of Resistance (Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora)

African-American English: Structure, History, and Use (Routledge Linguistics Classics)

Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Colonial America Literatures - Blackwell