Candelario Obeso (12 January 1849 – 3 July 1884) was a Colombian poet. He is known as a precursor of the Poesía Negra y oscura (black and dark poetry) in Colombia.
Candelario Obeso
Born
Candelario Obeso Hernández (1849-01-12)12 January 1849 Mompox, Bolívar
Died
3 July 1884(1884-07-03) (aged 35) Bogotá, Colombia
Occupation
poet
Nationality
Colombian
Lifeedit
Obeso was biracial, born of a white hacendado and a black maid in Mompox, Colombia on 12 January 1849. He studied at Colegio Pinillos de Mompox. In 1886 he obtained an scholarship to do his higher studies at Colegio Militar de Bogotá, and a year later he entered the Universidad Nacional de Colombia where he started engineering, law and political science, but due to economical struggle, he was unable to graduate from any faculty.[1][2]
He had several jobs during short periods of time. Due to his friendship with influential personalities of the time, he was named consul in Tours, France and national interpreter in Panama. He also worked as a school teacher in Sucre and municipal treasurer of Magangué.[3][4]
He faced racial discrimination and economical struggle. He fell in love with a white high-society lady who rejected his poems on love and she soon got engaged to a rich man. Heartbroken, he shot himself in the chest and died in Bogotá a few days later.[1][5] His remains are in the cemetery of Mompox.[6]
Candelario Obeso's gravestone in Mompox cemetery
Legacyedit
“Siendo probe alimales lo palomos; A la jente a sé jente noj enseñan; E su condúta la mejó cactilla; Hai en sus moros efertiva cencia!...”
He is known as the precursor of the Poesía Negra y oscura (black and dark poetry) in Colombia, a literary style that focused on describing the daily activities performed by the Colombian black communities. He wrote his narrative in the first person and using the language the Afrocolombian communities spoke.[8] An example of this is his first book of poems, Cantos Populares de mi Tierra, published by Imprenta de Borda in 1887.[7]
He also wrote La familia Pygmalion (1871), Lectura para ti (1878), Secundino el Zapatero (1880) and Lucha de la vida (1882).[9]
^ abVarious authors (2011). Candelario Obeso Una apuesta pedagógica, estética y social. Bogotá: Instituto para la Investigación Educativa y el Desarrollo Pedagógico –IDEP–. pp. 19–25. ISBN978-958-8780-00-9.
^Emblin, Richard (March 6, 2014). "Obeso: Poet of the Magdalena". The City Paper. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
^Valdelamar Sarabia, Lázaro; Ortiz Cassiani, Javier (2009). "La actividad intelectual de Candelario Obeso: entre el reconocimiento y la exotización". Cuadernos de literatura del Caribe e Hispanoamérica.
^Jauregui, Carlos (1999). "Candelario Obeso: entre la espada del romanticismo y la pared del proyecto nacional". Revista Iberoamericana. 65: 188-189 (188): 567–590. doi:10.5195/REVIBEROAMER.1999.6044.
January 01, 1970
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