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- Title
Running Away with Language: Inventing Wor(l)ds in the Work of Lélia Gonzalez in 1980s Brazil.
- Authors
Martins, Ana
- Abstract
Through the close reading of two essays published in 1988 by Afro-Brazilian black movement activist and feminist Lélia de Almeida Gonzalez (1935–1994), this article examines the author’s translation of her political ideas between different audiences (academic and activist) and languages (Portuguese and Spanish), which leads to the constitution of one essay as black and implicitly male (because it is unmarked by gender), and the other as black/indigenous and feminist. Gonzalez chronicles her own condition of liminality in-between related but distinct social struggles by employing the neologisms ‘amefricanity’ and ‘feminismo afrolatinoamericano’. These allow her to place the emphasis on multiplicity and diversity, whilst strategically engaging with the longstanding Spanish American continentalist rhetoric around a supposedly homogeneous Latin America.
- Subjects
BLACK feminism; FEMINIST authors; BLACK feminists; TRANSLATING &; interpreting; NEW words; BRAZILIAN women authors; FEMINISM &; literature; INTELLECTUAL life
- Publication
Gender & History, 2018, Vol 30, Issue 1, p255
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0424.12342