Toledo criticizes the bombardment of insurance policies “that make you’re feeling ashamed of what you’re”

Mexico Metropolis. The poet Natalia Toledo (Juchitán de Zaragoza, 1967) presents her new e-book for youngsters Deche yoo (Lavatory), revealed by the Almadía publishing home, the place along with his bilingual pen, in Zapotec and Spanish, he remembers his childhood.

In interview with The Daythe creator describes that she was born in a fishing neighborhood and used to go “with the neighbor, together with a number of kids, to shell the corn and, in return, he would inform us tales that come from oral reminiscence, this literature that’s handed from mouth to mouth. mouth, from ear to ear and it has a permanence.

“We kids did not have a toilet, solely adults. We walked to the again of the homes, deche ca deche, as they are saying in Zapotec, it’s again to again, and we relieved ourselves. We have been a union, a single neighborhood with the animals, nobody was above anybody. Even whereas we ate, the canines and the chickens walked between our toes, they have been like our household; though, later, my grandmother made them chicharrón,” he mentioned, laughing.

Toledo says that this actuality disappeared when paving arrived, when the backyards have been closed, hallways and fences have been added to the homes, “that restricted us and made us small. It is completely different once you go to the lavatory and lock your self in an area by your self. Alternatively, once you do it outdoors, it makes you a lot freer, since you are in communion with different kids, you do not concentrate on what the physique is like, however there may be an acceptance.

“We do not have the tradition to speak about it. It is like intercourse, everybody poops and fucks, however we’re cautious and cautious when discussing it, particularly if there are little ones. Within the Zapotec neighborhood of the Isthmus, we communicate very freely; In truth, in language we’ve got the presence of shit rather a lot as a result of we feed shit to anybody: ‘Oh, eat shit’, ‘gudó gui‘, and nobody is offended. “All of us eat poop in numerous methods.”

For the creator, “it’s a lot cleaner to do issues within the countryside; Nonetheless, we’ve got married very unusual concepts concerning the eschatological. Shit is essential inside cultures, in addition to in Mesoamerican cultures. We normally see it as one thing soiled, however for us it was pure. There was that magnificence, of speaking among the many kids whereas we have been doing after which we met to go play.

“If the again of your home was occupied, you went to a different one and if there was a line of kids there, you continued looking out. With the youngsters I grew up we knew one another till the tip. Even on this story there’s a love story that develops in these bogs, between a lady and a boy, and it will get pissed off, however as life goes by there may be the likelihood that they are going to meet once more,” she says with sympathy.

In that house, the Zapotec narrator additionally particulars that Within the Isthmus, after I was a baby, your home is not yours, abruptly I performed in different yards. I did not know the exclusivity, the non-public property like within the metropolis. If there are kids, they grow to be a part of that household. That has been misplaced. Serious about that nostalgia, it was with which I wrote this story, with the reminiscence of that lady I used to be and with all the youngsters with whom I went to the lavatory..

Zapotec symbols

All through the e-book there are symbols of Zapotec origin similar to a key which, in response to Toledo, is “a appeal that you just make with an indication by becoming a member of two fingers. It is evil, my brother did it to us. He applies if you find yourself doing or bidding and you’ll’t. Probably the most lovely factor on this earth is made by pushing, we have been all born like this. We’re from that home referred to as dojo, which is umbilical twine, home, is the idea of Zapotec thought. We come from that mecate, which is the mom and as soon as you allow, you’re feeling out of paradise.

“There’s additionally the flower guie’tiquiwhich is like an Indian key. Information It’s a flower and tiqui He walks on tiptoe as a result of when he falls from the tree he runs away. A Zapotec story tells that it was a flower that was taking part in on a regular basis and whereas they have been naming the flowers, abruptly they advised it: ‘hurry up as a result of it is already closed’ and it ran on tiptoe. Once they noticed it, they named it ‘the flower that stroll on tiptoe’. “It’s lovely, distinctive and it’s in Oaxaca.”

When asking the collaborator of this newspaper in regards to the presence of her mom tongue, she defined that “it isn’t very strengthened, though there are various packages, workshops and awards similar to these on the San Agustín Arts Heart, which my father Francisco Toledo created. That helps you study to put in writing your language, as a result of we’re literate in Spanish. We go away our tongue out to enter faculty. Oral custom and reminiscence is essential, there we study issues that aren’t in books and that, presumably, won’t be. My obligation is to offer it to the following technology and they’ll do the identical to take care of us.

Toledo expressed that there’s a bombardment of insurance policies that make you’re feeling ashamed of what you’re, like “in case you have brown pores and skin, loosen up; When you’ve got Chinese language hair, straighten it. That to belong to a homogeneous factor. As an adolescent, it is extremely simple to go away with these concepts. That is why all my books, besides the primary, are bilingual. I write in my native language as a result of it’s the one I exploit greatest, as a result of I prefer it, I like it and I by no means need it to be misplaced. Naming my world in my very own language makes me an individual.

I might have beloved for my father as an example this e-book, we have been alike and we argued rather a lot. It was an alternate that I’ll by no means have with anybody; first for confidence, second for data, as a result of my father was a fantastic researcher, very obsessive. We’d have had plenty of enjoyable, however now my dad belongs to others. I’ll by no means have an illustrator who has the humor of Maestro Toledo.

Lastly, the poet was acknowledged with the 2004 Nezahualcóyotl Nationwide Literature Prize for the work Guie’ Yaase’ (black olive) highlights that he’s focused on kids from different components seeing the truth and types of the communities, that not all the pieces is similar, that there are different methods of residing, being and pondering on this nation, that’s what is wealthy.