Oral tradition: element of cultural resistance

Abstract

This article analyses oral tradition as a fundamental element of cultural resistance, evidenced in the secondary characters of some stories of the literary work ¡Cric Crac! (Mil novecientos treinta y siete, Hijos del mar y un muro de fuego) by the Haitian author Edwidge Danticant. It is suggested that the characters of these stories with alienation feelings, even having abandoned their homes or being in their hometown, use oral tradition and cultural memory to resist before the dominant culture that imposes. In this sense, they become that otherness that being in their hometown or in a different geographical and cultural context from their native one, reveal their disapproval against it and remain as identity subjects in their strict sense.