Nomadismos del decir: avatares de la identidad afroantillana en Así­ habló el tí­o de Jean Price-Mars y El reino de este mundo de Alejo Carpentier

Abstract

This work compares convergent axes on Afroantillan culture displayed along So Spoke the Uncle (1928), by Haitian anthropologist Jean Price Mars, and The Kingdom of this World (1949), by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier. Distinctive narrative mechanisms that turn popular characters into object of knowledge and representations of an African-rooted unique ethnic identity present in each text are focused. From this perspective, it is possible to analyze up to what extent a discursive stance of symbolic legitimation for African cultural traces presence in Cuba and Haiti end up in a resignifying process that tend to homogenize the Afro-Caribbean complex heterogeneity.