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This selection emphasizes the mature works of Guillen, one of an international group of poets of the African Diaspora, which includes Leopold Sedar Senghor and Aime Cesaire in the francophone literature, and Langston Hughes and Leroy Jones in the African-American tradition. Like his contemporaries, Guillen combined modernist and surrealist influences on poetic form and content--including a valorization of "Africanity"--with revolutionary political engagement in the construction of a new society, one that comprised exposure of the social discrimination, prejudices, and poverty which plagued Africans of the Diaspora, and revindication of the beauty of Africaness--physically, linguistically, musically, and culturally.
In encouraging revolt against the existing order Guillen encouraged Afro-Cubans to pride of race and place. ... Rooting this interconnectedness in the rivers, bars, cities, regions, and heroes of Cuba, Guillen created a new vision of Cuban culture on which to ground social and political change.
Like the other poets of revolutionary decolonization Guillen pointed the way to constructivist postmodernism and planted the seeds of contemporary postcolonialism. ...
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Nicolas Guillen is an African born in Cuba, one of Cubas foremost poets. ...
After the victory of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro declared Guillen
the ? ... Lenin, Joseph Conrad, Alejo Carpentier, Mariano Azuela, Elena Garro, Carlos Fuentes, Che Guevara, Nicolas Guillen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernesto Cardenal, Giaconda Belli. ...
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Nicohlas Guillen was born on in 1902. ... From Camageuey, Cuba, he was the sixth child of Argelia Batista y Arrieta and Nicolas? Guillen y Urra, both who were of mixed African-Spanish decent.
Guillen? ... Guillen began writing about the social problems faced by blacks in the 1920, his first poems appeared in Camaguey Grafico in 1922. ... In 1926, Guillen became a regular contributor to the Sunday literary supplement of Havana? ... During the same year, Guillen interviewed Langston Hughes in Havana, he deeply admired Hughes and they became lifelong friends. ... It was as if Guillen had touched on something that the people of Cuba could recognize as having been on the tips of their tongues waiting for Guillen to articulate it. ... " Guillen was as much a political activist as a poet, in 1937 he traveled to Spain as a delegate to the Second International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture. In an address before the congress he condemned fascism and reaffirmed his black roots
In 1940, he ran for mayor of Camaguey and in 1948, Guillen was a senatorial candidate for the Cuban Communist Party; both campaigns were unsuccessful. ... Upon his return to Cuba in 1959, Fidel Castro awarded him the task of designing a new cultural policy and setting up the Union of Writers and Artist of Cuba, of which Guillen became president in 1961. ... Guillen died in Havana in 1987.
Guillen: Man Making Words (1972) emphasizes the mature works of Guillen, one of an international group of poets of the African Diaspora, which includes Leopold Sedar Senghor and Aime Cesaire in the francophone literature, and Langston Hughes and Leroy Jones in the African-American tradition. Like his contemporaries, Guillen combined modernist and surrealist influences on poetic form and content--including a valorization of "Africanity"--with revolutionary political engagement in the construction of a new society, one that comprised exposure of the social discrimination, prejudices, and poverty which plagued Africans of the Diaspora, and revindication of the beauty of Africaness--physically, linguistically, musically, and culturally.
In encouraging revolt against the existing order, Guillen encouraged Afro-Cubans to pride of race and place.
Approximate Word count = 2764
Approximate Pages = 11.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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