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2 - Quilombhoje as a Cultural Collective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2012

Niyi Afolabi
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin
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The hero or heroine of an immersion narrative must be willing to forsake highly individualized mobility in the narrative's least oppressive social structure for a posture of relative stasis in the most oppressive environment, a loss that is only occasionally assuaged by the newfound balms of group identity.

—Robert Stepto, From Behind the Veil

A enunciação em primeira pessoa revela a determinação do poeta de desvencilhar-se do anonimato e da “invisibilidade” a que relegou sua condição de descendente de escravos ou de exescravos e, mesmo após a Abolição, sua situação estranhamento em uma sociedade que não o convocou a participar em igualdade de condições.

[The first-person articulation reveals the poet's determination to defend himself from the anonymity and “invisibility” to which his condition of descendant of slaves or ex-slaves has relegated him—in a society that even after Abolition, strangely, did not invite him to participate in equal opportunities.]

—Zilá Bernd, Literatura negra

When in 1975 Thales de Azevedo, in Democracia racial, predicted a possibility of an “Afro-Brazilian Literature,” little did he know that twenty-five years after that prediction there would actually be a set of works on that very subject with a prominent status by that name. In Azevedo's formulation, Afro-Brazilian literature is by nature, an arm of protest, “sendo embora de protesto contra a situação social de contato com a sociedade branca, não tem o negro condições de escapar à própria contra-imagem que dele faz o branco” (105; given its nature of protest against social conditions fomented by its contact with the white society, the Afro-Brazilian cannot escape a counter-image against that projected by whites).

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Afro-Brazilians
Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy
, pp. 51 - 79
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2009

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