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Lisboa afropolita: Geografias emergentes do cosmopolitismo afrodescendente

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Fernando Beleza PintoORCiD

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Abstract

This article examines the articulations of Afropolitanism in contemporary Portuguese authors of African descent. It explores the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of Afropolitanism and the Afropolitan, who Taiye Selasi famously located “invariably” between Africa and one G7 city, in the context of the European semi-periphery and the transnational routes of Lusophone post-colonialism (Selasi, “Bye-Bye Babar” [2005]). On the one hand, it argues that in recent years Afrodiasporic writers in Portugal (particularly Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and Kalaf Epalanga) have reclaimed forms of Afropolitan identity affirmatively from Lisbon, de-centring the trajectories celebrated by Selasi and expanding the geographies of African cosmopolitanism beyond its established locations. On the other hand, I propose that the Afropolitanism articulated by this group of writers, reformulated and situated in the post-colonial Lusophone space, has also responded to some of the criticisms levelled at the very notion of Afropolitan identity suggested by Selasi, making a relevant contribution to the contemporary debate on the ethical, aesthetic, and political dimensions of Afropolitanism.

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Author(s): Beleza F

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Via Atlântica

Year: 2025

Volume: 26

Issue: 1

Pages: 522-561

Online publication date: 22/05/2025

Acceptance date: 08/08/2024

Date deposited: 09/08/2024

ISSN (electronic): 2317-8086

Publisher: Universidade de São Paulo

URL: https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v26.n1.2025.219853

DOI: 10.11606/va.v26.n1.2025.219853

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