Smith, C., Davies, A. orcid.org/0000-0001-7421-419X and Gomes, B. (2021) “In front of the world”: translating Beatriz Nascimento. Antipode, 53 (1). pp. 279-316. ISSN 0066-4812
Abstract
This collection translates some of the work of the influential Black Brazilian thinker and activist Beatriz Nascimento (1942–1995) for the first time into English, in collaboration with her only daughter, Bethânia Gomes. Historian, poet, theorist and organiser, Beatriz Nascimento was a key figure in Brazil’s Black Movement until her untimely death in 1995. She dangerously wrote at the height of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship (1964–1985), and theorised extensively on the Black condition in Brazil; the unique experience of Black women; and quilombos—Brazilian maroon societies that she imagined as spaces of both historical and contemporary fugitivity. Following Alex Ratts, this introduction outlines her contribution to radical geography, in particular Black geographies, territoriality and embodiment. It also positions Nascimento within the trans‐Atlantic Black radical tradition. We present two of Nascimento’s essays in translation here. The first, “The Concept of Quilombo and Black Cultural Resistance”, introduces a crucial strand of her scholarly work, on the history and socio‐political significance of quilombos (maroon communities). The second, “For a (New) Existential and Physical Territory”, shows Nascimento in a different mood: philosophical, reflective and iconoclastic. In addition, two of her poems—“Dream” and “Sun and Blue”—are also translated here for the first time.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Antipode © 2021 Antipode Foundation Ltd. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Antipode. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Beatriz Nascimento; Brazilian radical thought; Black geographies; Latin America; quilombo; race and gender |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust ECF-2019-661 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2021 10:40 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jan 2023 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/anti.12690 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:169912 |