Celebrações negras do ciclo natalino: teias da diáspora em áreas culturais do Brasil e Caribe

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Nepomuceno, Nirlene
• Orientador(a): Antonacci, Maria Antonieta Martines
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em História
• Departamento: História
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Festa negra; Diáspora afro-latinocaribenha; Reis negros; Práticas culturais; Performance; Ciclo natalino
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Black festivities; Black Latin-Caribbean diaspora; Black Kings; Cultural practices; Performance; Christmas holidays
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12676

This paper outlines the emergence of black festivities around Christmas holidays, in Brazil and the Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its main objective is to identify its dynamic processes of transformation, as well as strategies used by slaved Africans to both adapt to the "new world ", and to perpetuate the ties that bound them to Africa, a necessary step to resist colonial power embodied into oppression and violence. In addition to the seasonality of the period between Christmas and January 6, these black festivities share fragments of performative literacies , which inspite of their similarities and differences are revealing the contribution of African civilization in the Americas. We propose to "read" these festivities through, mainly, cultural practices, customs and the African body which in its displacement uploaded experiences and knowledge