Changó, Decolonizing the African Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9780367756574 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 396 str.

Manuel Zapata Olivella

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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.

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Introduction  Part 1: Origins  1. Land of Ancestors  2. The Slave Trade  3. The Elongated Footprint between Two Worlds  Part 2: The American Muntu  4. Born between Two Seas  5. Children of God and the She-Devil  6. Elegba’s Cross, Torture at Large!  Part 3: The Vodou Rebellion  7. The Horses and Their Riders Speak  8. Bouckman’s Drum  9. Freedom or Death  Part 4: Rediscovered Bloodlines  10. Simón Bolívar: Memory of Oblivion  11. José Prudencio Padilla: Alien Wars That Seem Like Our Own  12. The Aleijadinho: Where Your Fingerless Hands Leave the Imprint of Your Spirit  13. José María Morelos: The Call of the Olmec Ancestors  Part 5: Ancestral Combatants  14. The Ancestor Cult  15. The Thunderbolt Makers  16. The Civil War Gave Us Freedom, but Freedom Returned Us to Slavery  17. Hey, the Orichas Are Furious!