Raúl Ernesto Colón Rodríguez
Civilizations in the Caribbean
Aimé Césaire and civilizations in the XXI century
By: Raúl Ernesto Colón Rodríguez
C hen we review the francophone culture in the West Indies, immediately think of Aimé Césaire, who has been and is without doubt one of its most relevant in the twentieth century and so far this century. Educated at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand in France, together with Leopold Sedar Senghor, the "poet-president" of Senegal, both, and in early dates wondered: who are we? and above all what are we in this world of white?, questions you must answer all their lives ... responses involve not only the West Indian, West Indians but all blacks, whites, mestizos ...
Césaire has reflected and continues to do so [1] on the French model of civilization, "the French believed in the universal and for them there was nothing more than a civilization - the French, 'says the Indian, but" German and the English understood long before the French, that civilization does not exist, that are existing civilizations. " For this melting pot of civilizations that is the Caribbean this is an essential finding is proposing Césaire from Francophone West Indian lucid approach to the subject.
What is our civilization?, Who are we: mestizos, blacks and whites of these Caribbean islands?, Are the questions I suggested Césaire in his introspection, say Martinican ...
Guadeloupe and Martinique in Creole French is taught together in schools and that act causes a civilizational thinking, but also other practices in Césaire. The francoantillanos will institutionalize their vernacular, which is a hybrid language, a product of French and African languages, seasoned with salsa Antilles. However, further study the French classic.
Caribbean ability to take self-consciousness, of knowing "other" while further enriching the language and culture "dominant", would not this a feature differentiating our civilizations in the West Indies? Known is the scorn of the "metropolitan" to peripheral cultural phenomena, not absolute, but generalize and is also known that it was never better. Is not it why we continually have to "import" brains from our countries?
Césaire claimed the inalienable right of man as the man he is and doing shows a common feature of all the Caribbean: we take possession of the good of others because we are universal men, perhaps of a size exceeding that of Da Vincian, that framed the High Renaissance in Europe, a continent awakening to rationalism. We are a mix and that's the key, but not just of race and culture, (not sufficient), but of times, throughout human history transplanted to a continent, which in turn is a laboratory, one where a single jar and stir everything occurs as a result, for the first time in many centuries of effort Alchemist: Philosopher's Stone Site.
We are a mix of Spartacus with Tupac Amaru, with Sundiata Keita [2] and perhaps even Genghis Khan and the rebel side and the intellectual of Da Vinci, with the anonymous authors of the Popol Vuh, the also anonymous of the powerful Yoruba rituals and monkeys and even with Confucius and Lao-Tzu ...
Césaire also helps us to think when you analyze the problem of "victimization" that "peripheral" we have submitted, he throws us these ideas: "We should make an effort to concentrate, work, organize, have duties to our countries, to ourselves "and later, "we have received education and consistent worldview she is responsible for our irresponsibility."
The question is it just a problem afrofrancoantillano?, "We still have no signs or metropolitan education?, In the case of Cuba," whether or norteamericanofila Hispanicizing? ... I think so, the challenge of "making an effort of concentration "and recognize a civilization project back on track, we have not. We know we are building a new society, we know that we are different, but we must go further and conceptualize as we are already emerging: the New Civilization Caribbean, which together with South America (also labors) should crystallize soon as Martí dreamed: Our America, a Latin America, Aymara, Guarani, Quechua, Mapuche, Maya, African, and Anglo-Asian. A melting pot of all, a single civilization in its diversity.
[ 1] See: "Nègre, je resterai" Aimé Césaire par, dans Le Nouvel Observateur, No. 2141. [2] Great Emperor Manding Empire of Mali (XIII century)
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A ime Césaire born in 1913 in Basse-Pointe, Martinique, a country that owes much of his celebrity in the world of art and literature to this important figure, a member of the French Academy. Césaire, who unveiled his work notebook of a return to native country (1938), is considered the poet of "blackness." Author of numerous works of poetry and drama as well as the famous Discourse on Colonialism was also a prominent political figure of Martinique and deputy mayor from 1946 to 1993. ---
Raúl Ernesto Colón Rodríguez
Born in Santa Clara, Las Villas, Cuba, in 1964. Licensed History. Master in International Cultural Policy and Arts Management. Editor, translator and museologist. He did his university studies at the State University of Odessa, in Ukraine, and the University of Havana. He was a senior specialist for Europe's Directorate of International Relations of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba. He worked for 10 years at the National Cultural Heritage of Cuba, as editor of the Bulletin of that institution. is editor of "Free Cuba" since the birth of this publication. Made between 2002 and 2003 Masters in France, at the University of Avignon, Cultural Development Strategy and International Cultural Policy and Management of Arts, Culture for International Training, organized by the House of World Cultures in Paris.
Born in Santa Clara, Las Villas, Cuba, in 1964. Licensed History. Master in International Cultural Policy and Arts Management. Editor, translator and museologist. He did his university studies at the State University of Odessa, in Ukraine, and the University of Havana. He was a senior specialist for Europe's Directorate of International Relations of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba. He worked for 10 years at the National Cultural Heritage of Cuba, as editor of the Bulletin of that institution. is editor of "Free Cuba" since the birth of this publication. Made between 2002 and 2003 Masters in France, at the University of Avignon, Cultural Development Strategy and International Cultural Policy and Management of Arts, Culture for International Training, organized by the House of World Cultures in Paris.
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