THE POETICS OF ÉLE SEMOG AND JOSÉ LUIS HOPFFER ALMADA IN THE CONTEXT OF BLACK-DIASPORIC LITERATURES

Abstract

From the literary experience from Harlem Renaissance and Blackness in the United States and France, respectively, this paper aims to demonstrate how characteristics developed by these cultural movements of the first half of the twentieth century remain active in the literature of the African diaspora and Africa, in the case, the analysis of poems of the Brazilian Éle Semog and the Cape Verdean José Luis Almada. These marks of a black-diasporic writing, apart from questioning the canons of their countries, unveiling counter-hegemonic language to denounce the subordinate status of blacks in society, reconfigures the erasures of exclusionary official history, indicates the effective contribution of blacks in building their countries and propose the appreciation of black cultures in support of plural identities of their societies. The comparative study of the poems have the theoretical support of W.E.B Du Bois, Aimé Césaire, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Kabengele Munanga, Carlos Moore, among others.