Proposes that civilizational analysis has yet to fully address the colonial legacy and, to clarify the stakes at play, compares and contrasts the historical sociology of CLR James with the mytho-poetics of Derek Walcott. Both authors, in different ways, have attempted to endow that quintessentially un-civilizable body -- the New World slave -- with subjecthood.
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365 p, Discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America. Its thematic organization and holistic approach set it apart as the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of these populations and the issues they face currently available.
Examines three ‘cosmopolitan’ traditions in the Caribbean. While the first tradition derives from the universalist intellectual tradition of the European Enlightenment, the other two are linked to vernacular, local Caribbean traditions.
"While plotting out the journeys that paved the way for their creative and innovative work in Afro-Cuban and African American ethnography, this study will address their bifocal vision as insider-outsiders within the minority cultures they represent in folktales and within the 'foreign' cultures to which they traveled. Cabrera's and Hurston's roles as 'native ethnographers' will also be considered. In creating alternatives to traditional ethnographies, such as Franz Boas's Bella Bella Tales (1932), their collections can be understood as early examples of experimental and feminist ethnography." (author)
Feira de Santana, Bahia: Eduefs -Editora da Universdade Estadual de Feira de Santana
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139 p, Professor Adjunto da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, com doutorado e pós doutorado em estudos culturais, o australiano radicado na Bahia Piers Armstrong dedica-se a uma vertente culturalista que procura compreender de maneira singular as manifestações populares do estado da Bahia. Neste livro ele discute a obra de Jorge Amado, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto GIl e Carlinhos Brown, alé, de analisar vestuário, gíria, arte, costumes, publicidade e discurso político da cultura bahiana, principalmente a popular, imbricada com a questão da negritude.
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311 p., Works by Argentine and Uruguayan specialists in the study of the black population and its impact on cultural formation of the Río de la Plata intertwines. The central idea is to strengthen the dialogue and discussion on issues that were silenced by official cultures for many years.
