A Michael Handelsman: pensador-hacedor-escritor de afán intercultural y decolonial (Tributo)

 

Authors
Walsh McDonald, Catherine Elizabeth
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This letter to Michael Handelsman is an exercise of reflection in which Catherine Walsh writes “co(n)versifying and co-thinking” with said author. The clear purpose is to remember and highlight the literary, intercultural and de-colonial task carried out by Handelsman, with relation to his work as a scholar devoted to Ecuadorian Literature, particularly, Afro-Ecuadorian, without having left aside –despite adopting the aforementioned point of view–, a reading of culture and society as a whole. Walsh’s words arise from a strong critic against literate power and a declared “personal-political-intellectual” empathy with her interlocutor, as privileged places of expression.
Esta carta dirigida a Michael Handelsman es un ejercicio de reflexión en el que Catherine Walsh escribe “con-versando y co-pensando” con el explícito propósito de recordar y destacar la labor literaria, intercultural y decolonial de Handelsman, en relación a su labor como estudioso de la literatura ecuatoriana, de manera particular afro-ecuatoriana, cuya mirada afrocentrada no ha dejado de leer, desde ese lugar, la cultura y la sociedad en su conjunto. Las palabras de Walsh se entretejen desde una rotunda crítica al poder letrado y una declarada empatía afectiva “personal-político-intelectual” con su interlocutor, como lugares privilegiados de enunciación.

Publication Year
2019
Language
spa
Topic
HANDELSMAN, MICHAEL, 1948-
INTERCULTURALIDAD
LITERATURA AFROECUATORIANA
PLURINACIONALIDAD
Repository
Repositorio Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
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