Reading Imaginative Futures across Historical Moments; Or Speaking Surreptitiously in Imperial Centres



Título del documento: Reading Imaginative Futures across Historical Moments; Or Speaking Surreptitiously in Imperial Centres
Revista: Contexto internacional
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000443515
ISSN: 0102-8529
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. Estados Unidos de América
Año:
Periodo: Sep-Dic
Volumen: 38
Número: 3
Paginación: 803-824
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés Léopold Sédar Senghor’s 1961 Speech at Oxford University is a provocative and critical intervention during what is generally considered to be a decolonisation period. It is a speech that engages across eras, and one from which we can glean insights on how to nourish ideas and modes of thinking that may be needed in this historical moment. With it, Senghor illustrates the importance of humanism for interlocutory dialogue, which is necessary to transcend delimiting and violent kinds of relations. This article deploys the idea of surreptitious speech to examine how Senghor makes these arguments in a crevice moment. I present a homologous reading of Senghor’s speech using the lecture itself as a base with its three sections: ‘Negritude as a Form of Humanism’, ‘The African Mode of Socialism’, and ‘Conclusion’. Atop the speech, this essay develops in five sections that mirror the re-imagining and the future imagining that Senghor accomplishes with his words. I suggest that this speech represents a vision of a humanistic, decolonial future that keeps alive the idea and the hope of a more universal universalism
Disciplinas: Historia
Palabras clave: Historiografía,
Humanismo,
Negritud,
Imaginación,
Diálogo,
Cultura,
Deshumanización
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