Casa Bamba: an unthinkable story. A quilombo in the hills of Córdoba
Casa Bamba is a town located in the province of Córdoba, close to the City of La Calera, whose population is around 60 inhabitants. It owes its name to an ancient account based on the occupation of a cave, near the current train station, by an escaped enslaved person named Bamba. The most popular ve...
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/intersticios/article/view/28247 |
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| Sumario: | Casa Bamba is a town located in the province of Córdoba, close to the City of La Calera, whose population is around 60 inhabitants. It owes its name to an ancient account based on the occupation of a cave, near the current train station, by an escaped enslaved person named Bamba. The most popular version refers to a poem written by Ataliva Herrera, published around 1933, described by the critics of that period as “the poem of the race”.
The fieldwork with an ethnographic perspective, carried out in the region since 2018, hinted that what transits as a regional tale outside of Casa Bamba, in this particular territory circulates as memories. My interest, from that moment on, focused on collecting versions that are in tension with the hegemonic narrative, where the character's marked as black seemed to have been erased and the cave where it was discussed, had been degraded from its political and social importance.
I have investigated specifically the stories about this territory, which are discursively determined by a superficial description named cave, corresponding to the geographical space and denied throughout history as a social space in terms of dense description as an occupied site by escaped enslaved seking refuge in the area, called by other regions as quilombos.
In this sense, the word quilombo will give its name to the analyzed field, giving it the possibility of reconstituting itself as an entity of collective memory, trying to stop establishing itself as unthinkable in the Argentine narrative. |
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