Intercultural Communication and Symbolic Representation in CIDAF Cuadernos Africanos: African Literature in African Languages

This record presents an original scholarly work authored by Verónica Pereyra Carrillo and published in Cuadernos Africanos, edited by the Centro de Información y Documentación Africanas (CIDAF), Madrid. The text belongs to the series Approaches to Sub-Saharan African Literatures (Aproximación a las literaturas del África Subsahariana) by this researcher.

It explores African literature written in African languages through the theoretical perspectives of intercultural communication, symbolic representation and cultural mediation, emphasizing the centrality of language in the construction of cultural identity and postcolonial expression.

The work examines how African literary production functions not only as an artistic practice, but also as a communicational process through which memory, identity, oral traditions and collective symbolic systems are preserved and transmitted. Particular attention is given to the role of African languages as vehicles of epistemological resistance and cultural continuity within contexts historically shaped by colonial domination, linguistic displacement and unequal systems of representation.

From the perspective of communication studies, the publication analyzes the relationship between language, power and symbolic circulation in intercultural contexts, highlighting the importance of literary narratives in the negotiation of cultural visibility and transnational dialogue. The text situates African literary expression within broader debates concerning decolonial communication, cultural hybridity, postcolonial identity formation and the politics of representation in global knowledge production.

The publication also reflects on the significance of independent cultural and documentary initiatives such as CIDAF in promoting African studies and intercultural understanding within Spanish-speaking intellectual and academic environments during the late twentieth century. Through its interdisciplinary approach, the work contributes to communication studies, African studies, comparative literature, cultural history and decolonial thought.

This online deposit preserves and disseminates the original authored work for academic consultation, long-term digital preservation and international scholarly visibility. The record is intended to support future research on intercultural communication, African literary cultures, symbolic systems and postcolonial cultural production.