Literaturas afro e indígenas de Colombia: puesta al día del debate crítico

Abstract

This interview is an update on the state of critical debate on Afro and Indigenous literatures in Colombia, based on research by two scholars with recent publications in this field: Graciela Maglia and Miguel Rocha Vivas. The dialogue raises current reevaluations of terminology and rubrics referring to minority and minoritized literatures in the country, as well as the refunctionalization of writing as linguistic militancy and a place of socio-political-racial enunciation. In a metacritical balance, recent analytical perspectives on Latin American literature are discussed, such as interculturality, postcolonial studies, and Afrodiasporic studies. The interview includes selected illustrations of Afro and indigenous writers of Colombia and an approach to their narrative and poetic expressions. Certain stereotypes and reductionisms from which these expressions traditionally have been viewed are also questioned, as well as the postponement and invisibilization their works have suffered within the country.