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Mário Domingues, Race, and the Black Modernist Novel in Portugal (O preto do Charleston [1929])

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Fernando Beleza PintoORCiD

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Abstract

This article explores the novel O preto do Charleston (1929), by the Black Portuguese writer, journalist, anarchist, and anti-racist/anti-colonial activist Mário Domingues (1899-1977), considered against the backdrop of the racial regimes of Portuguese modernism and the transnational currents of the Black Atlantic. It argues that Domingues’ political thought and the cultural influences of the Black Atlantic, along with his place as a Black intellectual and artist in early twentieth century Lisbon shaped his literary production, whilst exploring modernist literary themes and aesthetics in his novel offered the Príncipe-born writer new and original ways of addressing his anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anarchist ideas. More precisely, I propose that, in O preto do Charleston, Domingues challenged Fernando Pessoa’s (1888-1935) narrative of aesthetic and national renewal with a Black modernist critique of modernity and its racial hierarchies, claiming a place for his literary production both in the context of Portuguese modernism and the modernisms of the Black Atlantic.

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Author(s): Beleza F

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Portuguese Studies

Year: 2024

Volume: 40

Issue: 1

Pages: 30-45

Print publication date: 29/07/2024

Online publication date: 29/07/2024

Acceptance date: 28/05/2024

Date deposited: 30/05/2024

ISSN (print): 0267-5315

ISSN (electronic): 2222-4270

Publisher: MHRA

URL: https://doi.org/10.1353/port.00004

DOI: 10.1353/port.00004

ePrints DOI: 10.57711/xvh4-gb39

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