The ancestors and their representation in Changó, El gran putas
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The cult to the ancestors is essential in the black attitude towards life, so the author makes them the philosophical and cultural axis by which is created the liberation saga novel Chango, El gran putas. Manuel Zapata Olivella transcends the mythic and philosophical universe Yoruba-Bantu, with the Gods, Ancestors and Orichas, from which reproductive memory is originates African man to rebuild the diaspora of millions of prisoners brought to America, probably as Mircea say Eliade, in a desire to find a trans-historic sense to the events of a group appointed by the fatality, or to denounce what the xenophobic and exclusionary humanity has been hidden for centuries of oppressive colonialism.
- Manuel Zapata Olivella
- Changó
- el gran putas
- Afrocolombian novel
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Zapata Olivella, Manuel. Changó, el Gran Putas. Editorial Oveja Negra. Biblioteca de Literatura Colombiana, Bogotá, Colombia, 1983.
Zapata Olivella, Manuel. El Árbol Brujo de la Libertad. África en Colombia – orígenes – Transculturación – Presencia – Ensayo Histórico Mítico y Antropológico. Artes Gráficas del Valle Ltda. 2002.
Zapata Olivella, Manuel. Las Claves Mágicas de América. Plaza & Janés. Editores Colombia Ltda. 1989. Páginas 96-109
