Música y oralidad como formas de arqueología literariamemorias silenciadas de la esclavitud
- 1 Universidad de Sevilla, España
ISSN: 1794-5887
Year of publication: 2017
Volume: 14
Issue: 27
Pages: 89-109
Type: Article
More publications in: Co-herencia: revista de humanidades
Abstract
This article intends to analyze the literary archaeology undertaken by Gayl Jones, the American writer who makes use of literature as a means for historical review. In her narrative poem, Song for Anninho, Jones combines music, poetry, and orality in order to rebuild the memory of resistance of Quilombo dos Palmares, a settlement of fugitive slaves founded in Northeastern Brazil in the early seventeenth century. This combination is achieved through the imagination and historical facts and from the feminine perspective that incorporates the modern meanings of the blues. Thereby, this epic poem is actually a hybrid song, which in the voice of a woman, links Brazil and the United States through diaspora and slavery.
Bibliographic References
- Gayl Jones, blues femenino, arqueología literaria, Quilombo de Pal-mares, diáspora.