Expressions of Afrocaribe resistance: The decolonial look at Jorge Artel’s poetic work

Abstract

Speaking of Afro-Caribbean resistance leads to recreating the memory and paths traveled by men and women such as Candelario Obeso, Luis Antonio Robles, Juan, Delia and Manuel Zapata Olivella, Aquiles Escalante and Jorge Artel, among others; who bequeathed to us their word and their commitment in the fight for identity, recovery and dignification of the memory of the Afro-descendant people, through their intellectual production, as researchers, narrators, folklorists and poets. This essay makes a decolonial reference to the poet Jorge Artel. Poet of his race and of his people, of his drums and of protests full of life, of blackness, of boundless emotion, of ancient anguish and call of blood. Jorge Artel intuited, knew, understood, that modernity is a cesspool that with the rhetoric of progress, hides its consequences, as well as hides the irreducible energy of the marginalized and excluded from the earth.