Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Afro-Brazilian Literature and Political Action
  • Chapter 1. Afro-Brazilians: Politics, Culture, and Identity
  • New Social Movements and the New Challenges of Identity
  • The Black Movement in Brazil: The Racial Identity Quagmire
  • The Black Movement in Brazil: Black Resistance to Dominant White Discourses
  • Chapter 2. Cadernos Negros: Politics and Literature
  • The Black Press in the 1970s: The Resurgent Black Discourse
  • Cadernos Negros from 1978 to 1980: The Search for a Black Collective Identity
  • Chapter 3. Cadernos Negros and Quilombhoje: Afro-Brazilian Literature Revisited
  • Cadernos Negros and the Field of Literary Production: The Authors and the Critics
  • Reflexoes and Criacao crioula: Rethinking Cadernos Negros's Literary Production
  • Chapter 4. Quilombhoje Authors and the Brazilian Canon
  • Poetry and Social Critique: Revisiting the Canon
  • Narrative and Social Literature: The Role of Race
  • Chapter 5. Quilombhoje Women's Writings: The Politics of Race and Gender
  • Empowering Black Women: Beyond Black and Feminist Movements
  • A Poetics of Resistance: Miriam Alves and Black Women's Identity
  • Esmeralda Ribeiro's Prose: From Social to Magical Realism
  • Conclusion: Afro-Brazilian Literature in a Democratic Society
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1. Afro-Brazilian Writers: A Small Biography
  • Appendix 2. Cadernos Negros
  • Appendix 3. "Livros do Autor"
  • Appendix 4. Essays
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index