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Niyi Afolabi - Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa - 9781137578174 - V9781137578174
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Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa

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Description for Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa Hardback. Ile Aiye redefines itself within shifting political realities of the Brazilian mythic racial paradise. The globalization agenda of the tourism industry places its Africanized strategies in dialectical tension with State's funding. the discussion of 'race' is inevitable as Ile Aiye questions the economically marginalizing status of Afro-Brazilians. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL3; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 530.

Ilê Aiyê's unifying identity politics through Afro-Carnival performance, is embedded in its dialectical relationship with the rest of Brazil as it takes ownership of its oppressed status by striving for racial equality and economic empowerment. Against this complex background, performative theory offers significant new meanings. In ritualistically integrating Bakhtinian categories of free interaction, eccentric behavior, carnivalistic misalliances, and the sacrilegious, Ilê Aiyê anchors its social discourse on showcasing the black race as a critical agency of beauty, pride, wisdom, subversion, and negotiation. Ilê Aiyê carnival is not only racially conscious, it heightens the conflicts by dislocating the very establishment that ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
African Histories and Modernities
Condition
New
Weight
530g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137578174
SKU
V9781137578174
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Ref
99-15

About Niyi Afolabi
Omoniyi Afolabi is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas-Austin, USA.

Reviews for Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa
Wlamyra Albuquerque, Professor, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil 'Africa in Brazil: Ile Aiye and the Re-invention of Africa' is a book that chooses IleAiye, an important and active cultural and political group in Bahia, as its research subject. It is a contribution to the analysis about African Heritage, racism, and anti-racism in Brazil. The bibliography used (both Brazilian and non-Brazilian) ... Read more

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