Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act

African Culture and Decolonization

AvM&aacuterio Pinto de Andrade,Lanie Millar

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Foreword by Lanie MillarThis book is a collection of essays and speeches by Mário Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan literary critic, cultural theorist and political activist and one of Africa’s most important 20th century intellectuals. His writings think through the task of intellectual emancipation of colonized people, which he saw as predicated on the necessary project of political decolonization. As anti-colonial movements got underway, Andrade wrote extensively about the urgent necessity for Africans to turn away from European cultural and political models, arguing that communities emerging from colonization should focus on voices from within the designated communities, on self-representation, and on horizontal relationships among Black, African, and decolonizing peoples. Andrade played a key role in theorizing the international reach of the revolutionary 20th century poetry and literature, Black cultural vindication, and African liberation. In his ethical commitment to moving away from focusing solely on the relationship between the colonial occupier and the colonized, he instead promoted ideas and actions that would construct mutual understanding among decolonizing communities. Andrade’s work offers models to rethink race and nation as analytic categories and is particularly relevant not only to scholars of African decolonization movements but to anyone engaged in contemporary conversations about race, belonging, and political community.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-05
Mått:137 x 213 x 18 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical South
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781509559350
Översättare:Fabienne Moore, Lanie Millar

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Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928-1990) was an Angolan poet, theorist, critic, and politician who wrote widely about national independence for colonized peoples.Lanie Millar is Associate Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon.

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“Mário Pinto de Andrade was a major figure in the history of debates about colonialism and decolonization. This collection of his essays is of great value both for the fresh light it sheds on the evolution of anti-colonial movements away from negritude and for what this tells us about contemporary debates on identity.”Jean Khalfa, University of Cambridge

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AcknowledgementsForeword – Lanie Millar1. Black Poetry Expressed in Portuguese 2. What is Luso tropicalism? 3. Black-African Culture and Assimilation4. Black Poets of Portuguese Expression 5. Culture and Armed Struggle6. Reflections on the Cultural Congress of Havana 7. African Poetry Expressed in Portuguese: Evolution and Current Trends 8. New Language in the Angolan Imaginary9. Culture and National Liberation in Africa. 10. The Armed Song of the Angolan People 11. “Preface” to Thematic Anthology of African Poetry: Songs of Arms 12. The Cultural Dimension in National Liberation Strategy: Identity, Cultural Power, and Democracy 13. Theoretical Production of African Intellectuals: From the Discourse on Race to the Discourse on National Liberation14. Mário Pinto de Andrade - An Interview15. Interview with Henda Ducados and Annouchka de Andrade about their fatherNotesIndex