Women, Negritude and the Construction of a Transnational Modernity

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n158957

Abstract

Taking as a starting point the work of Aimé Césaire in his decisive formulation of the concept of négritude, I propose a reflection about this concept in different historical moments, answering to political and cultural demands of each context. Thus, this article intends to focus on two feminine poetic voices that, in different ways, echo the principles of négritude, reinterpreting it in its specific agendas: Noémia de Sousa inserted in the Portuguese and African environment of the 1950s, and the Brazilian Singer Luedji Luna, Who ressignifies central issues of the same theme in the Brazilian context after affirmative actions. Through the approach of these two voices of diasporic Black women, I intend to identify transnational networks of planetary solidarity construction in a feminist perspective.

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Simone Pereira Schmidt, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Doutora em Teoria Literária pela PUC-RS, tendo realizado Pós-Doutoramento em Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa na Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2005) e em Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa na UFF (2012).  Professora Associada da UFSC, exerce docência e orientação no Curso de Letras-Português e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literaturas da UFSC. É pesquisadora do CNPq, vinculada ao Literatual/UFSC (Núcleo de Pesquisa em Literatura Atual- Estudos Feministas e Pós-Coloniais de Narrativas da Contemporaneidade), ao IEG/UFSC (Instituto de Estudos de Gênero), ao GT “A Mulher na Literatura” da ANPOLL e ao Grupo de Pesquisa “África, Brasil, Portugal; interlocuções literárias” (UFF-CNPq). Atua nas áreas de estudos feministas e pós-coloniais, desenvolvendo pesquisa sobre “Escritoras africanas e a construção de um pensamento ao Sul”.

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Published

2019-05-09

How to Cite

Schmidt, S. P. (2019). Women, Negritude and the Construction of a Transnational Modernity. Revista Estudos Feministas, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n158957

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Vol. 27 No. 1 (2019)

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Thematic Section

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