Un vagabundo en los Estados Unidos: desplazamiento y exilio en He visto la noche y Hotel de Vagabundos de Manuel Zapata Olivella
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.17385Abstract
Este ensayo examina dos textos tempranos de Manuel Zapata Olivella: su relato de viajes He visto la noche y el drama Hotel de vagabundos. Estas obras documentan sus vivencias durante su estadía en los Estados Unidos en la década de los años cuarenta y el efecto que ella tuvo en su decisión de volver a su país natal. Se examinan y se resalta la importancia de estas obras como testimonio y memoria de una doble experiencia de desplazamiento y exilio: la individuad de su autor con respecto a Colombia y la colectiva de los afroestadounidenses sometidos a las leyes de la segregación en los Estados Unidos.
Descriptores: Zapata Olivella, Manuel; Hotel de vagabundos; He visto la noche; desplazamiento; exilio; literatura afro-colombiana.
Abstract: This article examines two early works by Manuel Zapata Olivella: the travel account entitled He visto la noche, and the play Hotel de vagabundos. Both works document the author´s experiences during his stay in the United States in the 1940's and the effect it had in his decision to come back to his native country. Both works are closely studied focusing on the implications of the double experience of displacement and exile: the individual suffered by the author and the collective suffered by africanmericans under the law of segregation in the United States.
Key Words: Zapata Olivella, Manuel; Hotel de vagabundos; He visto la noche; displacement; exile; Afro-colombian literature.
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