Jorge Artel: Escritor colombiano indomulato.
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Title
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Jorge Artel: Escritor colombiano indomulato.
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Identifier
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AAI3037398
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identifier
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3037398
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Creator
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Garcia-Conde, Luisa.
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Contributor
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Adviser: George Yudice
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Date
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2002
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Latin American | Black Studies
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Abstract
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Jorge Artel's position as a poet of black expression in twentieth-century Colombia, and his validation of black identity in Latin America, has been drawn mostly from his best known work, Tambores en la noche. And if, justifiably, this work is of seminal importance, it represents a small percentage of his entire ouvre. This dissertation reviews his entire poetic works and also the incredibly rich production in newspapers and conferences where he elaborates on race, politics and popular culture. The author of this dissertation has had access to newspaper articles, so far inaccessible and dispersed, which enrich the subtleties of Artel's position on race and culture. The author also seeks to "complete" Artel's image by questioning the conflicts between the "black" ideology present in his articles and in his poetry and by addressing his political class consciousness and the import of his Indian ancestry.;Chapters I and II present a biography of the poet within Latin America's racial configuration, with a special emphasis on the Colombian racial landscape. Chapter III analyzes Tambores en la noche and Otros poemas and compares and contrasts its various editions to reveal conflicting definitions of identity (the conscious conversion of vocabulary to underscore his black identity). Of special note are two poems that intentionally exploit the deformed prosody imagined for African descendants; Artel clearly wrote against this practice in his newspaper articles. Chapter IV analyzes a little known work, Sinu, riberas de asombro jubiloso , and uses the framework of the idyll to examine the idealization of his Indian ascendancy.;Chapter V considers his political dimension in his only novel, No es la muerte, es el morir...and the collection of poems, Poemas con botas y banderas. The latter maintains a political transcendence without devaluing its poetic import by accessing extraliterary genres. Likewise, the novel cleverly plays between an obvious didactic content and a critique of the genre of the novel itself. Finally, Chapter VI presents a sample of unedited or unpublished materials that focus on Artel's explicit protest against the social and political conditions in Latin America, although two of them engage in metapoetic reflection.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
