Cultural multicentrality, a resistance strategy of the Afro-Cuban in “West Indies Ltd.” and the Cameroonian migrant in Spain in Mam’enying! (Cosas de la vida)

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to highlight the strategy proposed by Nicolás Guillén and Inongo-vi-Makomè to help the Afro-Cuban and the Cameroonian migrant in Spain to face the risk of cultural phagocytosis. This strategy of resistance consists of cultural multicentrality and transculturation. The corpus studied are “West Indies Ltd.”, an eponymous poem included in West Indies Ltd., and Mam’enying! (Cosas de la vida), the third novel by the Cameroonian writer Inongo-vi-Makomè. This analysis is supported by the socio-semiotic theory of the Montréal school, completed by those of Gilroy and Cros about the Black Atlantic and the cultural subject, respectively.

Keywords

• afro-cuban
• cameroonian migrant in spain
• cultural multicentrality
• transculturation
• resistance