En Chiná nace un santo: uma perspectiva de análise da literatura afro-colombiana de Manuel Zapata Olivella.

Abstract

From the points of view that manage the discussions about the called afro-colombian literature, the present study aims to analyse the literary text En Chimá nace un santo(1964), written by colombian writer and intelectual Manuel Zapata Olivella, intending identify and discuss images of afrodescendence, just as well to punctuate and to debate other points related to novel in question. In order to contextualize the object/subject of the research currently shown, the reflections outlined about the discursive constructs denominated Latin America, Afro-Latin America and Colombia will be establish dialogues with the literary text analysed in this work. Keeping in mind that Manuel Zapata is an afro-colombian writer still little known in the Brazil – and even in the Colombia – and that the studies about the literature produced by afrodescendant writer in the colombian academic scenario still are becoming as an area of knowledge, this investigation aims to evince the importance of the writer and intellectual in question, just as well to contribute to enlarge the discussions about the literary domain what is known as afro-colombian literature.