QUIXOTE MAGAZINE AND AFRO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE IN "MEET AMERICA, FRIEND!", BY SÍLVIO DUNCAN

Abstract

This research analyses the presence of Afro-Hispanic-American literature in the text "Know America, friend!" by Sílvio Duncan, published in the Quixote journal no.2 (1948). Duncan's essay (1948) demonstrates and defends one of the objectives of the production of Quixote group and its journal, which is the largest dissemination of Hispanic-American literature conducted by other Latin American countries, highlighting the lack of knowledge and the greater predominance and appreciation of Lusitanian and French literature in Rio Grande do Sul in the late 1940s and early 1950s in the 20th century.  In this case, the focus of the article is to analyze how the author defends the claim for greater dissemination and knowledge of Afro-Latin American literature in a context in which Eurocentric literature was more valued, and, therefore, expatiates on the statements of the text in question and exposes the actions carried out by the group for this purpose over its trajectory. As a critical and theoretical rationale we anchored ourselves to Miguel de Unamuno (1913), Walsh (2012), the teoric Education Decolonial, and Regina Zilbermann (1982).