{"id":3124605,"date":"2022-03-01T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/book\/profeta-contra-la-esclavitud-benjamin-lay-una-novela-grafica\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T04:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:46:33","slug":"profeta-contra-la-esclavitud-benjamin-lay-una-novela-grafica","status":"publish","type":"fpb_book","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/book\/profeta-contra-la-esclavitud-benjamin-lay-una-novela-grafica\/","title":{"rendered":"Profeta contra la esclavitud, Benjamin Lay: una novela gr\u00e1fica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Por David Lester con Marcus Rediker y Paul Buhle. Beacon Press, 2021. 100 p\u00e1ginas. 15 $\/tapa blanda; 11,99 $\/libro electr\u00f3nico.   <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/quakerbooks.org\/products\/prophet-against-slavery\">Comprar en QuakerBooks<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El cu\u00e1quero abolicionista Benjamin Lay ha recibido una merecida atenci\u00f3n en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os como un h\u00e9roe poco convencional entre cu\u00e1queros y no cu\u00e1queros. Pol\u00e9mico en su \u00e9poca, un precursor radical vital de los m\u00e1s conocidos Friends Anthony Benezet y John Woolman, y excluido durante d\u00e9cadas de las historias y an\u00e1lisis populares y acad\u00e9micos de los cu\u00e1queros y la esclavitud, la conciencia sobre Lay renaci\u00f3 a trav\u00e9s de la bien recibida biograf\u00eda de Marcus Rediker publicada en 2017. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/book\/fearless-benjamin-lay-quaker-dwarf-became-first-revolutionary-abolitionist\/\">Ver la rese\u00f1a de Larry Ingle en el <em>Friends Journal<\/em> de septiembre de 2017.<\/a>) Si bien muchos leyeron la biograf\u00eda completa, otros tantos se enteraron de Lay a trav\u00e9s de la publicidad que rode\u00f3 al libro, incluido el art\u00edculo de Rediker en la edici\u00f3n de septiembre de 2017 de <em>la revista Smithsonian<\/em>. Esta \u00faltima publicaci\u00f3n ampl\u00eda a\u00fan m\u00e1s las oportunidades de aprender y absorber la historia del abolicionista radical Benjamin Lay en un nuevo formato.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Buhle escribe al final del libro que el artista David Lester observ\u00f3 que \u201clas p\u00e1ginas puramente visuales ralentizan la acci\u00f3n y enfocan los pensamientos del lector\u201d. La conmovedora historia de la vida poco convencional de Benjamin Lay, llena de acciones viscerales contra la esclavitud y otras injusticias, se presta muy bien a un formato visual. La vida de Lay fue un testimonio de decir la verdad al poder desde abajo con acciones mejor descritas como teatro de guerrilla. Relatar su historia a trav\u00e9s de la interpretaci\u00f3n gr\u00e1fica parece una elecci\u00f3n especialmente apropiada para llevar a los lectores m\u00e1s plenamente a una experiencia sensorial. Esto no es una simple tira c\u00f3mica; es una obra art\u00edstica que presenta eventos reales traum\u00e1ticos. Retrata a un guerrero de la justicia social involucrado en la Guerra del Cordero, un cuento cl\u00e1sico de un h\u00e9roe que lucha por cumplir su misi\u00f3n. El texto de la biograf\u00eda acad\u00e9mica de Rediker es traducido por el artista David Lester para volver a involucrar a los lectores en otro nivel.      <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Para aquellos que no conocen a Lay, la historia b\u00e1sica est\u00e1 toda ah\u00ed en la interpretaci\u00f3n gr\u00e1fica. Adem\u00e1s, hay un ep\u00edlogo de una p\u00e1gina que presenta brevemente el contexto del legado de Lay. El ep\u00edlogo de cuatro p\u00e1ginas de Marcus Rediker, \u201cPor qu\u00e9 necesitamos a Benjamin Lay\u201d, reafirma los puntos clave y presenta reflexiones para fundamentar a\u00fan m\u00e1s al lector en la importancia de la historia. El libro concluye con el ensayo de Buhle \u201cArte c\u00f3mico y el artista\u201d, que ofrece informaci\u00f3n sobre las elecciones del artista y la forma de narraci\u00f3n gr\u00e1fica.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En la biograf\u00eda de Rediker de 2017, gran parte del \u00faltimo cap\u00edtulo explora el retrato de Lay de 1758 de William Williams-Benjamin West y los grabados posteriores basados en \u00e9l. Esto incluye la notable forma f\u00edsica de Lay como enano y jorobado, atributos que se utilizaron en su contra para insinuar que no era apto ni mental ni f\u00edsicamente. La crudeza en blanco y negro de las ilustraciones es convincente y apropiada para transmitir la profundidad y la lucha vivida por un abolicionista radical, vegetariano y de vida sencilla.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En lugar de limitar al lector a una sola ilustraci\u00f3n o \u00e1ngulo, el arte de esta \u00faltima interpretaci\u00f3n transmite toda la historia para mostrar las muchas emociones y tribulaciones de un profeta cu\u00e1quero del siglo XVIII.<\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gwen Gosney Erickson es miembro del Friendship Meeting en Greensboro, N.C., y archivista cu\u00e1quera en Guilford College, donde actualmente se desempe\u00f1a como copresidenta de la Comisi\u00f3n Curry-Coffin sobre Esclavitud, Raza y Reconocimiento.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5090,"featured_media":3087323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[10493,10323],"fpb_issue_category":[10689],"class_list":["post-3124605","fpb_book","type-fpb_book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libros-de-marzo-de-2022","category-resenas-de-libros-cuaqueros","fpb_issue_category-seguridad-en-las-juntas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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