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Decoloniality and the Spectre of Modernity: Notes for a Theoretical Critique

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 251-262, June 2024.
This article examines a thesis that has become a common currency in Latin American critical thought, namely that ‘coloniality’ is constitutive of modernity. This proposition rests on a reifying conception of modernity as a Eurocentric civilisational project which, I contend, is theoretically flawed and politically pernicious.
Julián Harruch
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Themes of Idealism and Nostalgia in Negritude Poetry [PDF]

, 2012
The central thrust of this paper is on the themes of idealism and nostalgia in Negritude poetry. Some critics regard negritude poetry as being sentimental and idealistic.
Okune, Sunday Tasen
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Saint Martin de Porres “The Black Saint of the Afro‐descendant community in Quito‐Ecuador”: Between segregation, racism, and black resistance

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 92-102, March 2024.
Abstract In the neighbourhood Caminos a la Libertad, located in the north‐western part of Quito, every November, a group of Afro‐Ecuadorian women called the Community of Saint Martin & The Martinas pay tribute to Saint Martin de Porres “the Black saint of the Afro‐descendant community.” This celebration is relevant in a context in which the Afro ...
Rocío Vera Santos
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Aesthetics, Politics, and the Return of Negritude

, 2017
Not so long ago, Negritude was an object of scepticism in many postcolonial quarters for its supposed implication in a variety of no-longer respectable patterns of thought: its purportedly essentialist approach to cultural identity seemed dated in ...
Chris Bongie
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Vozes dissonantes das quebradas nos Contos negreiros, de Marcelino Freire

Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2014
O artigo analisa a obra Contos negreiros, de MarcelinoFreire, entendendo-a como uma miscelânea de vozes provenientes das margens sociais de nosso país cuja emergência no terreno ficcional alarga os horizontes de representação da literatura brasileira ...
Luciana Paiva Coronel
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The pathfinder paradox: historicizing African art within global modernity . Review of: Chika Okeke-Agulu, Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in 20th Century Nigeria. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015 [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2020
The increasing global visibility of modern and contemporary African art makes it imperative to determine how art history frames the emergent subject/context.
Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie
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The Africa paradox: Locating Africa in eighteenth‐century studies

Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1-3, January-March 2024.
Abstract This article is about why Africa is overlooked in eighteenth‐century literary studies. Africa’s neglect is not merely a problem of attention. Neither the parameters of the field nor the tools of the discipline appear particularly suited for engaging Africa as anything other than an invention of the European imagination. In what follows, I seek
Rebekah Mitsein
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“Putaria”: masculinidade, negritude e desejo no pagode baiano

Maguaré, 2015
Neste artigo, propomos uma perspectiva queer para considerar a produção de subjetividades masculinas racializadas, a partir de investigação baseada em leitura crítica e dialógica da cultura popular, notadamente da música funk e do pagode baiano ...
Osmundo Pinho
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It's nation time! Jazz, raça e política nos escritos de Frantz Fanon e Amiri Baraka (1950-1970)

Revista de História
Neste estudo, examino as concepções de jazz e negritude do filósofo martinicano Frantz Fanon e do escritor afro-americano Amiri Baraka. Para isso, mobilizo dados na bibliografia pertinente, em trabalhos acadêmicos relevantes e em estudos biográficos ...
Antonio Carlos Araújo Ribeiro Júnior
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Créolité et voix de résistance chez Édouard Glissant

Carnets, 2018
We will question the Creole language as well as the Creole smugglers - Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Léopold Senghor, Achille Mbembe, Patrick Chamoiseau, Edouard Saïd - to know to what extent literature can help human subjectivities to ...
Adelaide Gregório Fins
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