The cultural politics of "Négritude" and the debates around the Brazilian participation in the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Dakar, 1966):

In this chapter, the author focuses on the artistic debates that have marked the participation, while pointing to some of the controversies sparked by the different political leanings of Brazilian artists and intellectuals around the event in Dakar. "Like other black intellectual engagements wi...

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1. Verfasser: Moura, Sabrina (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
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Zusammenfassung:In this chapter, the author focuses on the artistic debates that have marked the participation, while pointing to some of the controversies sparked by the different political leanings of Brazilian artists and intellectuals around the event in Dakar. "Like other black intellectual engagements with racialist thinking, Négritude developed partly as a result of a complex process of appropriation and rearticulation of earlier European ideas about Africa and its peoples," explains Elizabeth Harney. Along the lines of Negritude, the notion of arts negres was employed to designate works conceived by black artists, which counted on rhythm and intuition as their main aesthetic values. Despite all the flaws, all the deficiencies and even the political commitment that drove Brazil away from the leadership of a tropical civilization, frustrated, this country remains the only alternative to Negritude. The only country who exercises the racial cauldron in a high formation with a new ethnic characteristic.
Beschreibung:Illustrationen
ISBN:978-0-367-14084-7