«Negros aqui brancos acolá»:

imagens do racismo na poesia de Agostinho Neto

Abstract

The essay aims mainly at: 1) Identifying the condemnation of racial segregation (in Africa, Europe, and the United States of America) made by Agostinho Neto in several lyrical compositions; 2) Examine Neto’s appeal about the African imperative of returning to tradition; 3) Emphasise the value of Neto’s poetics for the rehabilitation of the black colour; 4) Putting the Angolan poet and other African writers into dialogue; 5) Determine whether Agostinho Neto’s poetics sought to deconstruct the rhetoric of colonial literature (based, among other aspects, on the infantilization of black people or even on their animalisation, on the denial of African culture and history and the legitimation of racism).