ЛАТИНСКА АМЕРИКА И ЊЕНИ НОБЕЛОВЦИ
LATIN AMERICA AND ITS NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

Summary/Abstract: This essay is an attempt to demonstrate, in the contexts of the 21st century, the relevance of the Nobel Prize Lectures delivered by Miguel Angel Asturias (1967), Pablo Neruda (1971), and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1982). The art of these authors is seen in the light of the long tradition of revolutionary struggles in Latin America against the colonial domination of Europe and the United States, most impressively summarized in the text Our America by the Cuban revolutionary José Martí. Latin American revolutions are supported by great many US artists and scholars because they share the view that colonialism, slavery and racism affected both North and South America and left legacies that have not been eradicated. Writers and artists of Latin America refuse to be considered culturally inferior and forced to imitate their colonizers. As the three Nobel Prize winners emphasize in their lectures, Latin America wants to be free to develop its marvelous indigenous traditions, whose egalitarianism and ecological wisdom provide powerful alternatives to the destructive ways of the West.

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