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Blacks of the Rosary
Blacks of the Rosary tells the story of the Afro-Brazilian communities that developed within lay religious brotherhoods dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary in Minas Gerais. It shows how these brotherhoods functioned as a social space in which Africans and their descendants could rebuild a communal identity based on a shared history of an African past and an ongoing devotional practice, thereby giving rise to enduring transnational cultures that have survived to the present day. In exploring this intersection of community, identity, and memory, the book probes the Portuguese and African contributions to the brotherhoods in Part One. Part Two traces the changes and continuities within the orga...
Global Multiculturalism
Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries_each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity groups are included, or made invisible by forced assimilation, or reviled even to the point of genocide. Framed within a theoretical discussion of national identity, transnationalism, hybridity, and diaspora, each chapter surveys the demographics and history of its country and then analyzes the dynamics of diversity. With cases ranging from Bosnia to Chiapas, Cuba to China, and Zimbabwe to France, this volume offers a truly global perspective and scope. Its genuinely comparative methodology and range of disciplinary perspectives make it a unique resource for all those seeking to understand ethnic conflict and diversity.
Afro-Brazilians
An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.
Calunga and the Legacy of an African Language in Brazil
Although millions of slaves were forcibly transported from Africa to Brazil, the languages the slaves brought with them remain little known. Most studies have focused on African contributions to Brazilian Portuguese rather than on the African languages themselves. This book is unusual in focusing on an African-descended language. The author describes and analyzes the Afro- Brazilian speech community of Calunga, in Minas Gerais. Linguistically descended from West African Bantu, Calunga is an endangered Afro-Brazilian language spoken by a few hundred older Afro-Brazilian men, who use it only for specific, secret communications. Unlike most creole languages, which are based largely on the vocab...
A saliva da fala
Repensar a cultura brasileira a partir da produção dos povos negros, entender as profundezas que a historiografia do Brasil fez questão de esconder para validar as estruturas do racismo, aplicar às manifestações de origem banto o que a crítica literária considerava apenas na arte influenciada pelos princípios europeus. É em busca dessa nova perspectiva que apresentamos a reedição revista de A saliva da fala: notas sobre a poética banto-católica no Brasil, um ensaio contundente sobre a importância cultural e literária dos cantopoemas banto-católicos do Congado mineiro. Partindo da premissa de Antonio Candido de que, para um texto ter tratamento literário, é preciso que se s...
Luso-Braz. Rev
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Hearing Brazil
Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation’s slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a wide range of traditions helping to define the region, ethnomusicologist Jonathon Grasse examines the complexity of Minas Gerais by exploring the intersections of its history, music, and culture. Instruments, genres, social functions, and historical accounts are woven together to form a tapestry revealing a cultural territory’s development. The deep pool of Brazilian scholarship referenced in the book, with original translations by the author, cites over two hundred Portuguese-language publications focusing on Minas Gerais. T...
Cultura, festa e devoção
As festas religiosas católicas são presenças significativas desde tempos coloniais, com seus conjuntos de rituais próprios, formando um rico calendário anual de festas do cristianismo católico, geralmente em cerimônias que mesclam as dimensões eclesiástica e a popular. As pesquisas sobre as festas, nas diferentes áreas do conhecimento, vêm demonstrando a importância e a fecundidade desse campo de estudos. Desde a sua preparação até a sua realização, implica um modo de ver e viver, que incluem a preparação dos alimentos, o vestuário dos atores e devotos, as relações homem-mulher na divisão das tarefas, a casa da festa, as relações de parentesco e, ao mesmo tempo, as c...
Cosa è Montserrat?
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Orfe(x)u e Exunoveau: análise de uma estética de base afrodiaspórica na literatura brasileira
Em Entre Orfe(x)u e Exunouveau: análise de uma estética de base afrodiaspórica na literatura brasileira, Edimilson de Almeida Pereira propõe dois neologismos por meio dos quais busca entender as diversas variantes da poesia e da literatura nacional. Nesta ode ao mito de Exu, orixá que tem a pluralidade como característica fundamental, o professor, poeta e ficcionista apresenta um olhar singular, pautado pela diáspora africana, sobre a construção literária no Brasil e no mundo. Orfe(x)u, para Almeida Pereira, dá conta das manifestações literárias realistas, pautadas por questões mais concretas e calcadas na experiência, sendo representado pelo estilo de escritores como Luiz Ru...
