Bøger af José Endoença Martins

Enquanto Isso em Dom Casmurro que, agora, chega ao leitor, escapa das amarras pós-modernas para promover encontro do texto com a perspectiva teórica afrodiaspórica recente do Afrofuturismo, conceito utilizado em 1993 por Mark Dery, o mesmo ano da publicação inaugural do meu romance no Brasil. A esta concomitância histórica entre o texto ficcional brasileiro e o conceito afro-americano pode-se somar a coincidência racial, fato que aproximaria este escritor afro-brasileiro da concepção teórica afrodiaspórica do Afrofuturismo. A justificativa para a colocação de Enquanto Isso em Dom Casmurro sob o guarda-chuva prático-teórico das teorias afrofuturistas evidencia a possibilidade da nova análise se beneficiar de um arcabouço teórico-analítico que possa lançar luzes inovadoras sobre o texto ficcional, advindas do Afrofuturismo e suas maneiras de permitir ao sujeito negro o desafio, no presente, das experiências de lutas do negro no passado e o desejo de projetar esperança para vivências negras futuras.

"Signifyin(g) upon Toni Morrison¿s Postblackness" is a collection of academic texts on the novels of African-American novelist Toni Morrison, who has been awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize of Literature. Her novels ¿ The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby ¿ are critically discussed under the auspices of three distinct concepts: Negriceness, Negritude and Negriticeness. These concepts work as theoretical attempts to measure both interracial and intrarracial proximity of the novels¿ major characters with both black and white cultural worlds and values. Thus, regarding The Bluest Eye, its Pecola Breedlove is studied from the perspective of Negriceness, which explains her wish to possess blue eyes. Concerning Song of Solomon, Milkman Dead is evaluated from the point of view of Negritude, which justifies a personal search for his family¿s ancestors and the legend of the flying slave, in the Southern US. Finally, as for the gaze of Negriticeness, Tar Baby's Jadine Childs associates her double-voiced blackness with her life between both the black Childs and the white Streets. In the end, Morrison's postblackness signifies upon the sum of all our blacknesses.

The book "Slave Women¿s Conversion in Spiritual and Political Black Narratives" situates black writers¿ autobiography within the theoretical and practical contours of Nihilism and Love, two aspects of the black experience all over the world, since slavery. It highlights West¿s (1994) perception that Nihilism ¿ as meaningless, hopeless and loveless life ¿ can only be defeated by Love ¿ as self-love and love of others. In the three personal accounts discussed, the black writers¿ self-displacement from Nihilism to Love is vastly documented by the narrators. Firstly, Martins¿s (2016) movement between these polarized aspects of the black experience leads him from Ariel to Calibán to Eshu. Secondly, Lee¿s (1849) tale conducts the spiritual narrator from sin to public preaching after conversion. Finally, Brent¿s (1861) discourse shows how the slave narrator moves from bondage to political activism as an abolitionist, after fleeing from slavery. These three self-narrators of their own overcoming of Nihilism encompass personal connections to specific modalities of Love and Self-Love, due to individual and collective conversion, within literary, spiritual and political discourses.