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Wheel of Revolution Subjected

"All history is nothing but an infinite
catastrophe which we try out best" Italo
Calvin

American History is the story of one who submits. Or rather, who is forced to surrender. And although the literature is never the primary source for historical knowledge, it is a reference illuminant itself as an expression of cultures for what they are and what they do. From this perspective, Alejo Carpentier's novel "The Kingdom of This World" illustrates a particularly good view on how that constitutes the history of our continent. Therefore, through the novel, give our particular view about the nature of history (American and universal) and the revolution as a historical process, cyclical and 'continuous'.

Before proceeding with any analysis on the book, it is imperative to become familiar with the landmarks associated with it: what time are given the facts and what is written. At first, the novel takes us to Haiti in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, full time American independence Revolutions and processes. United States, France, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile are all countries facing political turmoil times (more or less as applicable), which lead ultimately to changes ranging from radical emancipation or deposition of rulers warmer reforms and signs Shy independence.

Moreover, the context in which Carpentier writes "The Kingdom of This World" is that of decolonization after World War II. The countries of Asia and Africa (and to a lesser extent America) were going through hard struggles aimed at ending the dominance of European powers in the area. Cases such as India, Congo, Egypt, Algeria, Vietnam and Cambodia are a clear demonstration of the ways in which they addressed the 'second liberation' worldwide (ranging from non-violence to the establishment of one-party state socialism) .

Both cases show signs of failure that is, after all, the revolutionary process. On the one hand, the nineteenth century was a century that increasingly favored the aristocracy and oligarchy, with no real benefit to the mass to be recruited and participated in the Independence. The ideals of freedom and democracy came at a reduced level for the ruling class and not for the people, as it was assumed that should have been. Turning to the twentieth century, all new national dissociate themselves from the colonial powers are involved in the disruption after the emancipation also forced (more or less explicitly) to choose one of two opposing blocs during the Cold War. Despite having formed in the Non-Aligned Movement, each country adopted positions that favored the U.S. or the USSR.

Thus we return to one of our main ideas: revolution is a process that is unable to achieve in reality the purposes set out by ideologues. Your application becomes, eventually, in a different kind of status quo of everyday life is not largely altered. This has to do with condition fallible and corruptible human beings. In parallel, we find that (particularly in America) we are relegated to a domain accept 'foreign', a force that does inevitably affect our daily work and how our historical development.

already clear that we can make an application of these ideas to the facts presented in the novel, distinguishing first the process that it happens and then we can gather ideas from what happens in the book.

us consider from two perspectives: that of Ti Noel, his protagonist, and this double revolution of the people of Haiti. Carpentier

shows a character faced calls from his time. Moves, swings, through the events of your community more as a viewer (such as the author in the process of writing the novel, as we readers) of the story, starring the same determinant. If we imaginásemos history as a train, he is as expendable as one of the thousands of pieces of coal that move this great engine. So who is ultimately the boiler on this machine? In the first instance we can mention Mackandal, Mande has been able to develop the ability to transform into different beasts to weasel out of his pursuers.

But think from another point of view; Mackandal is just the shaker movement irrevocably involved and requires the collective and the conjugation of wills to an end (the common good, happiness, revolution, democracy, Communism, salvation, etc.). It follows that although Ti Noel is not a crucial element in the events of history, Mackandal or not it is, their efforts as members of a whole (community of slaves) is not so vital for success, but for the very existence of the revolution.

Despite the obvious that we can prove the association of one of our proposals - the idea of \u200b\u200bAmerican history is the history of the subject - and the status of Ti Noel slave, it seems necessary to deepen about this fact .

Making a brief tour by the events of the novel we find the following points: Firstly
reflected through the Mezy Lenormand figure (the owner), who in the sample more typical and less attractive, it begins to enter the existing long way foreign domination. Translating this to a post in the story we see again the subjugation of Ti Noel, and not a different race but one of their own community, Henri Christophe. Finally, after thinking that the star had reached the ultimate liberation, must fall to the original and most basic form of subjugation, this time there are human actions that influence the Ti Noel, ends after the above-dominated infinitely greater weight of the history of the geese.


Then the thesis is right, man must bear the weight of power and therefore the weight of tradition. In this way everything will end in submission, as if our gender centuries of evolution could not cope or the oath of freedom of a goose, it is clear that we have achieved little or nothing in this 'breakthrough'.


Now for the second point to be discussed: the dual Haitian revolution. First, the slave against the white man, and second, the black man against his own race.

We can say that the triggering event of this huge uproar was the very ideological revolution in France and the arrival there of the news imbued with the ideals of Liberté, Egalité et Fraternité . This aroused the slaves with more enthusiasm than knowledge, the need of the uprising against years of submission.

And so begins this coming and going of situations by the savagery of an oppressed race and the ignorance of that undeniably becomes an event of unprecedented violence and bloodshed generous. So the question is how this will be the true manifestation of the free man? Submission Is the only way to counter the turmoil of this aggression? Do you reach in a distant time the actual implementation of a socially bearable freedom?

fact that after the first revolution we have a pretty happy bitterness of what might happen later. Then after a pause in Cuba find the arrival of the second form of submission, confirming once again what I have postulated about this: neither the man nor the people can escape from the subordination of others. As we said, it comes from their own race and not different from the previous lot. Is it because the rule is not about stocks, rather the fact of being human. The nature of the human body contains, like it or not, a thirst for power in nature, if it is possible the question of whether drinking or not, could be reduced to virtually nothing, independent of any existing principle or loyalty.

fighting is restarted. Now it's the same blood that runs on both sides. But it is predictable what will happen: nothing new, will history repeat itself over and over again.

This is eventually shown to be cyclical and continuous revolution. This revolution is merely pursuing a dream as old as civilization itself and has been and will always relegated to a group of people from the complacency of a human or abstract entity more powerful than our will. So we continue to face our illusions of perpetual freedom, making creating utopias, political and economic systems, with their attendant revolutions to get started and be paradójicamente esclavizados por ellos mismos. En conclusión, querámoslo o no, nos enfrascaremos en las mismas añoranzas y realizaremos los mismos alzamientos que nuestros antepasados, pero todo será parte del giro constante de la misma rueda: la Historia.

Es necesario clarificar que diferimos totalmente con aquella visión hegeliana de la historia encaminada inevitablemente hacia el Progreso, hacia la Síntesis del Espíritu. De qué síntesis se les puede hablar a los esclavos haitianos si continúan siendo esclavizados por la gente de su propio pueblo. En el perpetuo embaucamiento es que vive el ser americano. En definitiva, y como lo planteó Octavio Paz, somos ‘hijos de la chingada’. Y therefore, here in America, whatever we do is fuck. Fuck the Colony, screwed screwed Independence and the Revolution.