Abstract

SIERRA DIAZ, Diana Carolina. Muntu: the Diaspora of African Philosophical Thought in Changó, el gran putas [Changó, the Biggest Badass] by Manuel Zapata Olivella. La Palabra [online]. 2016, n.29, pp.23-44. ISSN 0121-8530.  https://doi.org/10.19053/01218530.n29.2016.5699.

Abstract The problem of diasporic phenomena in America is a significant element in Changó, el gran putas. In this novel, the African exodus is related to Muntu philosophy. This philosophy brings together African knowledges composed of diverse elements that reemerge in America, where they are transformed in a context of postcolonial cultural exchange. In Changó, Muntu philosophy allows us to analyze the possibility of creating an alliance between africans and mestizos committed to the freedom of America, at the same time as it becomes a metaphor for American mestizaje; an opportunity to see the History of this continent from a literary point of view which engages different dimensions of the human being. This study is a reflection about the way in which the different philosopical categories of Muntu (Kintu, Kuntu, Hantu and Muntu) are developed and ad[a/o]pted from a literary/philosophical perspective, inquiring into their relevance in the work.

Keywords : Africa; Muntu; Kintu; Hantu; Kuntu; diaspora.

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