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Afro-Brazilians
An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.
Mulheres Escre-vendo
Afro-Brazilian women find their literary identity in these tension-edged, bilingual narratives. Exploring the rich context of what it means to be a black Brazilian, each piece transforms the cruel day-to-day realities, through the prism of fiction, into stories of hope for a different future. Instruments of political and social change, these narratives invite readers to explore and analyze a lesser-known aspect of the African diaspora and come to understand the universality and specificity of contemporary Brazilian literature by African women.
Miriam Alves Plural
Em 1978, no Teatro Municipal em São Paulo, surgiu o Movimento Negro Unificado (MNU), data em que o pensamento coletivo acerca da escrita de autoria negra começou a se formar, conectando escritores em um corpo cultural a um só tempo diverso e coeso. Embora já escrevesse desde a infância, é a partir desse movimento que Miriam Alves passa a elaborar as vivências e subjetividades negras brasileiras e a traduzi-las em seu fazer literário, cuja grandeza não foi devidamente medida pelo racismo estrutural que ainda hoje é motivo de combate na literatura e na sociedade. Nascida em 1952, aos trinta anos Miriam Alves passou a publicar seus poemas, contos e romances, pelos quais obteve reconhe...
Writing Identity
In the late 1970s, Brazil was experiencing the return to democracy through a gradual political opening and the re-birth of its civil society. Writing Identity examines the intricate connections between artistic production and political action. It centers on the politics of the black movement and the literary production of a Sao Paulo-based group of Afro-Brazilian writers, the Quilombhoje. Using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the field of cultural production, the manuscript explores the relationship between black writers and the Brazilian dominant canon, studying the reception and criticism of contemporary Afro-Brazilian literature. After the 1940s, the Brazilian literary field underwent several...
Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment
This study examines Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian women writers, as well as analysing the roles of women of African descent in Cuban and Brazilian literature. Initially, literary imagination locked women into circumscribed roles, a result of hierarchies embedded in slavery and colonialism, and sustained by hierarchical theories on race and gender.The discussion illustrates how these negative aspects have influenced the mainstream literary imagination that contrasts with the 'self-portrayals' created by women writers themselves. Even as there continues to be disadvantageous constructions, there is no doubt that a modification has occurred over time in images, representation, and articulation. It is a change directly associated with the instances when women themselves are the writers.The historiographic image of the Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian woman as a written object is ideologically replaced by a vision of her as a writing subject. It is here that the vision of a creative, multifaceted, and diversified literature becomes important.
Poemas Reunidos
Comemorando os quarenta anos do trabalho poético de Miriam Alves, estes Poemas reunidos trazem compilados pela primeira vez os poemas de uma das vozes mais importantes da literatura brasileira. Miriam Alves fez sua estreia literária em 1982 na coletânea Axé: antologia contemporânea de poesia negra brasileira e no número 5 dos Cadernos Negros. Publicou dois livros de poesia nos anos 1980, porém o formato do livro individual foi só um dos meios que a autora usou para fazer circularem seus poemas. Sua poesia está difundida por muitas publicações coletivas, antologias, revistas, zines, e agora se encontra em conjunto neste volume pela primeira vez. Também estão nesta edição as autobiografias da autora publicadas originalmente nos Cadernos Negros, um depoimento para a revista eLyra e os prefácios originais de seus dois livros. O posfácio fica a cargo de Emerson Inácio e o texto de orelha é de Heleine Fernandes. Política e lírica, a poesia de Miriam Alves mobiliza diversas vozes e temporalidades para a construção de uma subjetividade singular e poderosa.
Mayaya Rising
Who are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of writers who intentionally center powerful female cultural archetypes. In this inventive analysis, Duke proposes three case studies and a corresponding womanist methodology through which to study and rediscover these figures. The musical Cuban-Dominican sisters and former slaves Teodora and Micaela Ginés inspired Aida Cartagena Portalatin’s epic poem Yania tierra; the Nicaraguan matriarch of the May Pole, “Miss Lizzie,” figures prominently in four anthologies from the country’s Bluefields region; and the iconic palenqueras of Cartagena, Colombia are magnified in the work of poets María Teresa Ramírez Neiva and Mirian Díaz Pérez. In elevating these figures and foregrounding these works, Duke restores and repairs the scholarly record.
Enfim--nós
This is the first time that the literary works of contemporary Afro-Brazilian women have been compiled presenting a comprehensive vision of what it means to be both black and female in Brazil.
Black Women's Rights
Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power presents Black women as alternative and transformative leaders in the highest political positions and at grassroots community levels. Beginning with a critique of the assumption of an equivalence between masculinity and political leadership, Carole Boyce Davies moves through the various conceptual definitions, intents, and meanings of leadership and the differences in the presentation of practices of leadership by women and feminist scholars. She studies the actualizing of political leadership in the Presidency of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the historical role of Shirley Chisholm as the first woman to run for presidency of the United States on a leading party ticket, the promise of the Black left feminist leadership of Brazilian Marielle Franco, and the current model of Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados in advancing new leadership models from the Caribbean. This book proclaims the 21st century as the century for Black women's leadership.
Africana
Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999. This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the se...
