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the many lives of RauÌ?l Grigera and the power of racial storytelling in Argentina
Many lives of RauÌ?l Grigera and the power of racial storytelling in Argentina
"A few writers evoke RauÌ?l's connection to the commonplaces of the city's African past: slavery, the neighborhood of Montserrat and its percussive candombe rhythms, the dance troupes of carnival. But they struggle to narrate the passage of time between these hazy, distant memories and RauÌ?l's tangible twentieth-century presence. Some surmise (without accounting for the generations that separated RauÌ?l from slavery) that he was the son of enslaved parents who "had adopted the surname of the family they had served."4 Others find it easier simply to have him materialize. "He appeared one day in one of the city's many holes," storytellers declared, "airs of a forgotten Congo ruffling his wooly hair, the winds from Montserrat carrying the sounds of their candombes."5 Or, "He appeared on the city's streets like a jet-black doll"-a lifeless object-"dropped by a carnival troupe."6 The main character of these stories has no verifiable history; he "appears" fully formed, sometime in the early 1900s, as "el negro RauÌ?l.""--
A Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Racial stories -- Ancestors (1850-1880) -- Community (1880-1900) -- Youth (1900-1910) -- Celebrity (1910-1916) -- Defamation (1916-1930) -- Deaths (1930-1955) -- Epilogue: Afterlives (1955-present)
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022