Música y oralidad como formas de arqueología literaria
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2017-10-31
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Universidad EAFIT
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Este artículo se propone analizar la arqueología literaria acometida por la escritora estadounidense Gayl Jones, quien utiliza la literatura como medio de revisión histórica. En el poema narrativo Song for Anninho, Jones combina música, poesía y oralidad para reconstruir -por medio de la imaginación y de hechos históricos, y desde un punto de vista femenino que incorpora los significados modernos del blues- la memoria de resistencia del Quilombo de Palmares, un conjunto de asentamientos de esclavos fugitivos fundados en el nordeste de Brasil a comienzos del siglo XVII. Así, este poema épico es, en realidad, una canción híbrida que, cantada por una mujer, vincula a Brasil y Estados Unidos a través de la diáspora y la esclavitud.
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.
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.