{"id":9303,"date":"2010-10-01T20:23:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9303"},"modified":"2013-02-06T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T19:53:09","slug":"manuel-zapata-olivella-and-the-%e2%80%9cdarkening%e2%80%9d-of-latin-american-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9303","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Zapata Olivella and the \u201cDarkening\u201d of Latin American Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manuel Zapata Olivella and the \u201cDarkening\u201d of Latin American Literature<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Missouri Press<\/a>
\n2005
\n168 pages
\n6 x 9
\nindex, bibliography
\nISBN 978-0-8262-1578-9<\/p>\n

Antonio D. Tillis<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
\nDartmouth University<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Manuel Zapata Olivella and the \u201cDarkening\u201d of Latin American Literature<\/em> is an examination of the fictional work of one of Latin America\u2019s most prolific, yet overlooked, writers. Born in Colombia<\/a> to parents of mixed ancestry, Zapata Olivella<\/a> [English translation\u00a0by Google\u00a0here<\/a>] uses his novels to explore the plight of the downtrodden in his nation and by extension the experience of blacks in other parts of the Americas. Author Antonio D. Tillis offers a critical examination of Zapata Olivella\u2019s major works of fiction from the 1940s to the present, including Tierra mojada<\/em> (1947); Pasi\u00f3n vagabunda<\/em> (1949); He visto la noche<\/em> (1953); La Calle 10<\/em> (1960); En Chim\u00e1 nace un santo<\/em> (1963); Las claves m\u00e1gicas de Am\u00e9rica<\/em> (1989); and Hemingway, el cazador de la muerte<\/em> (1993).<\/p>\n

Tillis focuses on the development of the \u201cblack aesthetic\u201d in Zapata Olivella\u2019s stories, in which the circumstances of the people of African heritage are centered in the narrative discourse. Tillis also traces Zapata Olivella\u2019s novelistic effort to incorporate the Africa-descended subject into the literature of Latin America. A critical look at the placement of Afro\u2013Latin American protagonists reveals the sociopolitical and historical challenges of citizenship and community. In addition, this study explores tenets of postcolonial and postmodern thought such as place, displacement, marginalization, historiographic metafiction, and chronological disjuncture in relation to Zapata Olivella\u2019s fiction. Tillis concludes that the novelistic trajectory of this Afro-Colombian writer is one that brings into literary history an often overlooked subject: the disenfranchised citizen of African ancestry.<\/p>\n

\u00a0By expanding and updating the current scholarship on Zapata Olivella, Tillis leads us to new contexts for and interpretations of this author\u2019s work. This analysis will be welcomed by readers who are just beginning to discover the writings of Zapata Olivella, and its new approach to those writings will be appreciated by scholars who are already familiar with his works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manuel Zapata Olivella and the \u201cDarkening\u201d of Latin American Literature University of Missouri Press 2005 168 pages 6 x 9 index, bibliography ISBN 978-0-8262-1578-9 Antonio D. Tillis, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Dartmouth University Manuel Zapata Olivella and the \u201cDarkening\u201d of Latin American Literature is an examination of the fictional work of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,21,8,17],"tags":[3992,3993,3994,3996,3995,769],"class_list":["post-9303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-antonio-d-tillis","tag-antonio-tillis","tag-dartmouth-university","tag-manuel-olivella","tag-manuel-zapata-olivella","tag-university-of-missouri-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}