African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Confiant analyzes 60 years of Césaire's poetic and political existence. While denouncing the oppression of the Third World by the West as a poet, as a politician Césaire advocated the law of assimilation for the Antilles-Guyane and Reunion.
Tillis explores the socio-political poetics of Blas Jiménez in the context of the negritude aesthetic in the Spanish-speaking world. The selected poems of Jiménez attest to the continuation of negritude ideology of Afrocentric thematic poetry in the Carribean and showed that the poet's social criticism is linked to an ideology of white supremacy resulting from colonialism and slavery.;
Feira de Santana, Bahia: Eduefs -Editora da Universdade Estadual de Feira de Santana
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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.
