Boquellanta
Item
- Title
- Boquellanta
- Subject
- Bodies
- Description
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A group of Brazilian professional male, light-skinned, wavy-haired football players are practicing skilfully moving the football. They players are drawn looking human in a ‘naturalistic’ way. Next to the players, there is a figure, representing the character Boquellanta. This figure is not drawn in the same ‘naturalistic’ human-looking way as the players, but rather drawn as a grotesque figure that looks not human but like a cartoon, drawn fully in black ink representing black skin, with a big, squared head, huge ears, curly hair, a thick white circle in place of the mouth, and with enormous white eyes. He is dressed in square-printed pants, suspenders, a stripey t-shirt and grotesque enormous shoes, potentially resembling the shoes of a clown. The players take a break and Boquellanta, admiring the player’s great skills with the football, decides to take a chance with the football and starts moving it with his feet. The players, impressed when seeing Boquellanta playing the football, comment out loud that the little Brazilian, as they call him, has an impressive dominion of the football. Boquellanta replies to the players that he is not a little Brazilian and that he is a “true Black” who lives in the Malambito*, a racialised neighbourhood in the Colombian Atlantic region, traditionally associated with Afrocolombian populations.
* “Yo soy negro de pura cepa y vivo en Malambito”. - Country
- Peru
- Format
- Comic strip
- Date
- 1953
- Item Location
- Biblioteca Nacional del Perú
- Item sets
- CORALA
- Site pages
- Pedagogies