Horacio Mendizábal
Horacio Mendizábal (1847–1871) was an Argentine poet, translator and activist.[1]
Life
[edit]Horacio Mendizábal was born to an Afro-Argentine upper-class family in Buenos Aires, the son of Rosendo Mendizábal, a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Buenos Aires and one of the earliest black politicians in Argentina. Publishing his first volume of poetry as a teenager, he became increasingly concerned with issues of racial equality and national independence. He died, aged 24, while tending to the sick in the 1871 yellow fever epidemic.[1]
His son was the pianist and composer Rosendo Mendizábal.
In 2019, the Argentinian publisher Amauta&Yaguar republished the work Hours of Meditation as a tribute to 150 years of his publication. It includes a preliminary note by Federico Pita, president of Diafar (African Diaspora in Argentina), Espacio Malcolm and editor of the newspaper El Afroargentino.
Works
[edit]- Primeros Versos [First Verses], 1865
- Horas de meditación [Hours of Meditation], 1869
References
[edit]- ^ a b Elizondo, Joy (2005). "Mendizábal, Horacio". In Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (eds.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience. Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. pp. 793–4. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
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