Anancy stories beyond the moralistic approach of the western philosophy of being
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Date de publication: | 2014 |
| Description: | This article analyzes Anancy’s cogni-tive and sociohistorical identity beyond the moral-istic approach of the western philosophy of being. Instead, Anancy stories are studied as a decolo-nized expression of an afrodescendant Caribbeanness that struggles to survive in an impe-rial context. There is placed special emphasis on Anancy and his relationship with other animals of the forest present in the stories collected by a group of Costa Rican researchers. Walter Mignolo’s concept of colonial and imperial differ-ences, the notion of the trickster, Mikael Bakhtin’s carnival, the psychological theories of the id and humor are used to support the analysis. Finally, it is concluded that Anancy stories are the result of resistance but more importantly, they reveal a nontraditional subversion that guarantees hope in a hopeless system. In this sense, Anancy does not accept fatalism as a cognitive structure of his iden-tity; even though, he lives in a fatalistic society. |
| Pays: | Kérwá |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Kérwá |
| Langue: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/85514 |
| Accès en ligne: | https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/blo/article/view/864 https://hdl.handle.net/10669/85514 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Mots-clés: | Anancy stories Afro Caribbean literature Oral literature |