El cacique de Ornofay: la construcción textual y visual del filósofo salvaje
This article analyzes the figure of the Indian chief of Ornofay in Cuban literature and paintings of the nineteenth century. The objective is to show how this figure, produced by discourse and completely ignored today, serves as a rhetorical argument in historical manuals in favor of the colonizing...
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Published in | Revue tunisienne d'etudes hispaniques no. 7; pp. 7 - 30 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | Spanish English |
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Université de Tunis El Manar
01.12.2021
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Summary: | This article analyzes the figure of the Indian chief of Ornofay in Cuban literature and paintings of the nineteenth century. The objective is to show how this figure, produced by discourse and completely ignored today, serves as a rhetorical argument in historical manuals in favor of the colonizing project and, at the same time, as a criticism of Spain in several Cuban poems. As I argue, the period in which this figure resurfaces coincides with reformist and independentist projects in Cuba and Latin America, which take the Native Americans as an argument against the colonial power. Here I suggest that the poems dedicated to the cacique of Ornofay rewrite and appropriate this figure to create spaces of deaths and memories, which remind Cubans and Spaniards of the loss of human lives because of the colonization.
Este artículo analiza la figura del cacique indio de Ornofay en la pintura y la literatura cubana del siglo XIX. El objetivo es mostrar cómo esta figura, producida por el discurso y completamente ignorada hasta la fecha, sirve de argumento retórico en los manuales de historia a favor del proyecto colonizador y, al mismo tiempo, de crítica a España en los poemas nacionalistas. El periodo en que surge esta figura coincide con las propuestas reformistas e independentistas en la isla y en Hispanoamérica, que toman al indígena americano como argumento en contra del poder colonial. Aquí sugiero que los poemas dedicados al cacique de Ornofay reescriben y se apropian de esta figura para crear espacios de muertes y memorias, que les recuerdan a los cubanos y a los españoles la pérdida de vidas humanas a causa de la colonización. |
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ISSN: | 2286-5977 2286-5977 |
DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.6325340 |