Speaker: Livia Apa
Time: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CST
Venue: 206 Ingraham Hall
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Talk Description
Recent studies (Reza:2024 and Alfieri:2024) have delved deeper into the relationship between the cultural press and anti-colonial movements, demonstrating how cultural relations in colonized spaces ended up being deeply political. From the same perspective, I propose to investigate how the thinking of figures such as Mário Pinto de Andrade, Amílcar Cabral and Viriato da Cruz, among others, while feeding off a constant exchange with le monde de Bandung (Diagne:2017), proposed a break with the assimilationist model created by the Estado Novo, paving the way for anti-colonial and liberation thinking that was deeply rooted, however, in the territories to which they belonged.
Speaker’s Bio
Livia Apa works on Lusophone literary and cultural studies and is a researcher at the Centre for Studies on Contemporary Africa at the University of Naples L’Orientale. She currently works on African cinema and on knowledges produced on the African continent and in the diaspora. She is also a translator