Cienfuegos, Cuba.- Dominican academician Silvio Torres-Saillant said today that through Casa de las Americas, the Cuban revolution proved how the same decolonization achieved through arms could be achieved through literary writing.
Teacher at the US University of Syracuse, Torres-Saillant is in this southern city as a members of the of the jury to the Casa de las Americas Award in its edition 58.
The Dominican essay writer will be, together with the Brazilian Joao Jose Reis and Cuban Gloria Rolalndo, in charge of awarding the laurel for Studies on the presence of black people in the contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean.
About such award, he told the news agency Prensa Latina that it stimulated research on the black experience as part of the national experience, because the black remained unstudied. It was not assumed (after the independence processes in the region).
That Casa de las Americas had instituted it, is an important incentive for those who study the subject, who in many cases, do this work by their personal efforts and contrary to the cultural view of intellectuals in their respective countries, he remarked.
Source: PL
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