Afro literary walks. Intercultural poetics as forms and ways of inhabit(ing) and be(ing) in the world

Abstract

Much ink and letters have managed to emerge in what we know as Latin America (originally Abya Yala). Words that have emerged from the literary journeys that have been configured in everyday life in all these intercultural and hybrid processes in which poetic warps are woven to describe the world of Afro life. That is why this writing is committed to an analysis of poetic writings that give an account of a place, of poets who are committed to a content where the struggles, characters, languages, intercultural practices and ways of drawing worlds, trajectories can be seen. and feelings of “the nobodies and the nobodies.” From a methodological point of view, it is proposed to take extracts from the poetic work of the Colombians Mary Grueso, Ashanti Dinah and the author’s, to analyze poetic figures that describe the world of life. Likewise this investigation is interested in seeing in the written text all the literary poetic expressions that were once recognized from the oral tradition, but today we find in texts that circulate in different formats and aim to constitute literatures that center their universe on the Afro. Many writings inherited from the two great exponents of the Negritude movement such as the Caribbeans Aimé Césaire and Leopold Sedar Senghor, from whom some opening poems of the writing will be taken into account. And how this movement enables the arrival of what was later called Black Poetry in Latin America.