Negritude, identidade e consciência estética na poesia afro-brasileira de Oswaldo de Camargo

Abstract

This thesis aims to study the African-Brazilian poetry writer Oswaldo de Camargo in the light of African descent literary criticism. It investigates the work O Estranho, published in 1984 in an attempt to understand how Oswaldo de Camargo formulated a negritude perspective; hence, he proposes discussions on issues of identity and aesthetic awareness. In this research, the view and the places from where he speaks to black and / or African-Brazilian literature were examined based on the value of dialogue, meetings, cultural tensions and conflicts experienced by the Brazilian black. In Chapter I, It presents the approaches and principles that formulated this research and how the text is aligned. In Chapter II, It exposes and examines the proposals of some writers who are struggling on the possible concepts and definitions of African-Brazilian and / or black literature, It also presents the propositions of Eduardo de Assis Duarte and the discursive markers of African-Brazilian literature suggested by him. In Chapter III, It makes a proposition about a possible Brazilian negritude from the reflection of four Brazilian cultural movement perspectives. This reflection begins in 1940 and finishes in 1970, it refers to these movements: the Teatro Experimental do Negro, the newspaper Quilombo, the Teatro Popular Brasileiro, the Associação Cultural do Negro and the Cadernos Negros. In Chapter IV, It discusses the poetry of Oswaldo de Camargo, and also defends the second thesis according to which the author studies the blackness, identity and aesthetic consciousness in his poetry. It reads poems, makes proposals and suggests perspectives within Oswaldo de Camargo’s poetry. In Chapter V, It finishes the research substantiating the steps covered, likewise the theoretical reference adopted. It claims the importance of Oswaldo de Camargo literature to endorse racial issues in Brazil and shares the proposition that literature is a tool of fundamental importance on racism, discrimination and prejudice debates. It emphasizes the aesthetic interrelation / thematic, never separating them, because it sees them as intercrossed universes like a rhizome, like an entangled spider web.