Afro-Colombian Manuel Zapata Olivella's historical novel Changó el Gran Putas (
1983)1 re-tells the history of the ... He uses both these myths and the written
histories of the West to tell the struggles and deaths of black people who change
the world. ... Since early Greek historians told history in a way that mimicked
tragedy, this can be seen as a return to the origins of ... past—a term I borrow
from Eugene Vance (1979, 379) and repurpose for this syncretic history of New
World Slavery.
