TY - CHAP
T1 - Brazilian Black Activists’ Anthropophagous Manifesto
T2 - Reclaiming Blackness in Afro-Brazilian History and Culture
AU - da Silva, Antonio J.Bacelar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - For the past 30 years, the Brazilian Black movement has devoted efforts to unearthing the accomplishments, achievements, and history of hidden Black people in Brazilian history. In response to Black mobilization, the Brazilian government mandated in 2003 that schools across the country teach African and Afro-Brazilian history and culture. In this context, some Black activists are focused on how the erasure of Blackness in Brazilian-formed texts has shaped how Afro-Brazilians understand and think about their Black heritage. In this chapter, I combine Michel de Certeau’s (1984) notion of reading as poaching with the Brazilian poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade’s concept of cultural cannibalism (anthropophagy)—with its subversive potential and tactics of (re)appropriation—to examine Black activists’ use of critical reading to probe, reclaim, and reimagine that which was whited out from Brazilian history and Afro-Brazilian identity. Their use of critical reading provides a way to not only visualize the impact of colonization but share a greater story of Black resilience through time.
AB - For the past 30 years, the Brazilian Black movement has devoted efforts to unearthing the accomplishments, achievements, and history of hidden Black people in Brazilian history. In response to Black mobilization, the Brazilian government mandated in 2003 that schools across the country teach African and Afro-Brazilian history and culture. In this context, some Black activists are focused on how the erasure of Blackness in Brazilian-formed texts has shaped how Afro-Brazilians understand and think about their Black heritage. In this chapter, I combine Michel de Certeau’s (1984) notion of reading as poaching with the Brazilian poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade’s concept of cultural cannibalism (anthropophagy)—with its subversive potential and tactics of (re)appropriation—to examine Black activists’ use of critical reading to probe, reclaim, and reimagine that which was whited out from Brazilian history and Afro-Brazilian identity. Their use of critical reading provides a way to not only visualize the impact of colonization but share a greater story of Black resilience through time.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105021150517
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-38226-0_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-38226-0_7
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:105021150517
T3 - Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
SP - 109
EP - 123
BT - Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -