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- Lundahl, Mikela, 1965, et al.
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Den mörke brodern. Svensk negrifiering av svart poesi 1957
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - 1104-0556. ; :02, s. 39-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article sheds new light on the Swedish introduction of poetry written in French, Spanish and Portuguese by black authors and/or on ”black” topics. More specifically, the article discusses Artur Lundkvist’s anthology Den mörke brodern (‘The darker brother’), published in 1957. It analyzes the title, foreword, selection and translations included in the anthology and relates these to international models of the time and to a Swedish essay on poetry written by black authors published in 1960. Lundkvist’s approach is found to be more negrophile and exotizising than the international models and the Swedish essay.
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- Lundahl, Mikela, 1965
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Vad är en neger? Negritude, essentialism, strategi : What is a Negro? Negritude, essentialism, strategy
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to analyse the concept of negritude in texts written by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Aimé Césaire and how they used the word nègre in their anti-colonial struggle. Usually the negritude movement is seen as racial essentialistic and particularistic. These descriptions are often referring to Jean-Paul Sartres well known essay »Orphée noir« from 1948. In his essay he labels the negritude movement (which until then did not exist as such) as »antiracist racism«. This enquiry questions the conclusion that negritude is essentialistic and analyses Césaires and Senghors texts focusing the on issue whether they actually express essentialistic conceptions of race, africanness and negroness or not. One of the arguments in the study is that rather than being essentialists, they were engaged in achieving political change through the accentuation of race. That does not necessarily imply a biological understanding of race. At the actual time of birth of the negritude concept, the idea of race is rarely a strictly biological concept; rather it refers to a mixture of biological, cultural and historical elements. Here Gayatri Spivaks concepts strategy and essence have been useful to understand that the accentuation of a common feature (even when it is known not to be stable and eternal) in specific historical situations, actually can be used as a strategy. She has also observed how disturbing all signs of essential thinking seem to be among contemporary scholars. The study discusses the criticism of negritude, and the picture of it as essentialistic. The questioning of identitarianism during the last decades paired with the fear of essentialism, tend to overlook other aspects of a specific political struggle. Many modern critics of negritude have been too focused on the hazards of essentialism and unable to see the possibilities of negritude as a strategy. Often this inability can be explained by a lack of historical perspective, which makes it difficult to make adequate judgements of the negritude project. Rather than evaluating negritude from a contemporary perspective, it is the political reality of their time that is the main frame of this dissertation.
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- Lundahl, Mikela, 1965
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Vad är en neger? Negritude, essentialism, strategi [Ny utg.]
- 2005
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- VAD ÄR EN NEGER? är den första svenska studien av »negritude«, idén om negerhet. Negrituderörelsen föddes på 1930-talet som ett motstånd mot det koloniala samhällets rasism, för att så småningom bli en del av den afrikanska kampen för självständighet. Rörelsen blev känd som en »antirasistisk rasism« och ansågs företräda en essentialistisk syn på ras. I ljuset av samtida postkoloniala teorier omvärderas den bilden: betoningen av det afrikanska ursprunget kan istället tolkas som en antirasistisk och antikolonial strategi, en strategisk essentialism. Boken följer denna kamp mot kolonialism och rasism genom att studera rörelsens båda centralgestalter, Aimé Césaire och Léopold Senghor. Syftet är inte i första hand att utforma en antirasistisk strategi idag, utan att lära oss mer om kolonialismen, vad den var och vad den fortfarande gör med oss och vår förståelse av världen. Vad det till sist handlar om är att göra sig mer lyhörd för vad människor vill göra, än för vad de säger att de är – svarta, vita, svenskar, invandrare.
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