Aparato crítico – tradução de alguns textos de autores fundacionais para os estudos da negritude e afrodiaspóricos: Frantz Fanon, Léon-Gontran Damas e Aimé Césaire.

Abstract

These are texts which are an essential part of historiography concerning the study of "blackness" or, moreover, of what, archaeologically, in contemporaneity, are approaching a notion that could be called Afro-diasporic. The texts follow a photo of L'etudiant noir, the first newspaper made by black students in Paris in 1935, whose publishers, also poets, coined the term "negritude". They are historical documents, even as they are contemporaries of the "Universal Exhibitions" held in Paris and other European capitals. Exhibitions in which "other" peoples, "others" compared to Europeans, were put on display as "exotic" in a procedure that, in all, can be described as a "human zoo." In 2012, the Quai Branly Museum held an exhibition on "Universal Expositions" in Paris, in which it critically outlined the procedures used. It is also very important to emphasize the anticipation, in Frantz Fanon's letter presented here, of questions that will later become central to Michel Foucault's investigative project, which will result, in particular, in his paradigmatic History of Madness.