Book Description

"This bilingual volume brings together the first comprehensive compilation of Afro-Brazilian literature produced by the Quilombhoje group over three decades of their existence as a cultural and political movement in Brazil. Comparable to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, Quilombhoje continues the tradition of the Quilombo, a communal sense of cultural resistance, survival and renewal assumed by descendants of Africans who refused to be enslaved. In producing poetry and prose through the Cadernos Negros series, contemporary Afro-Brazilian writers make a cogent statement against the stereotypical images of blackness while formulating a defiant and regenerative counter-discourse informed by Black pride, dignity, and Pan-African consciousness. Contributors include Cuti (Luiz Silva), Carlos de Assumpção, Geni Guimarães, Arnaldo Xavier, Miriam Alves, Abílio Ferreira, Márcio Barbosa, Jamu Minka, Conceição Evaristo, Esmeralda Ribeiro, Landê Onawale, Oliveira Silveira, Jônatas Conceição, Oswaldo de Camargo, Éle Semog, José Limeira, Cristiane Sobral, Waldemar Pereira, Thyko de Souza, Lepê Correia, Oubi Inaê Kibuko, Marcos Dias, and Alzira Rufino among others."--Page 4 of cover.