Edwardo Galeano: a Beautiful Mind
April 28, 2015
Confronting Systems of Power
Edwardo Galeano: a Beautiful Mind
by ANDREW RAPOSA
Tariq Ali in an interview with the Guardian on April 18th, following the death of Edwardo Galeano on April 13th, delivered a brief homage to the great Latin American writer saying “Galeano’s entire life is suffused with the idea of mass democracy, whereby, the poor and oppressed can achieve self-esteem and emancipation through common action and solidarity.”
In all of Galeano’s work is the semina, leftist thought that people can move beyond capitalist domination and ideology and become subjects in history, rather than objects of capitalist hegemony They can overcome capitalist alienation and historicial institutions ,and ultimately determine their own future.
You discover in his writing the recurring message that literature can be a very important social activity, when carried out in the context of larger social and economic forces. That literary production is eminently tied to historically dominate economic conditions and class relations. Galeano’s opus Open Veins in Latin America remains a classic illustration o fhis early Marxist influence .childrendays
As an historian, Galeano knew what it must be like to live in a certain period of time, and how this experience can be best articulated and
reproduced only in literature. In Open Veins, one of the paramount issues is raised, when he talks of a total individual and social alienation as a pernicious consequence of capitalist expansion and control.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/28/edwardo-galeano-a-beautiful-mind/
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