Introduction: Afro-Brazilian Literature and Political Action
Chapter 1. Afro-Brazilians: Politics, Culture, and Identity
New Social Movements and the New Challenges of Identity
The Black Movement in Brazil: The Racial Identity Quagmire
The Black Movement in Brazil: Black Resistance to Dominant White Discourses
Chapter 2. Cadernos Negros: Politics and Literature
The Black Press in the 1970s: The Resurgent Black Discourse
Cadernos Negros from 1978 to 1980: The Search for a Black Collective Identity
Chapter 3. Cadernos Negros and Quilombhoje: Afro-Brazilian Literature Revisited
Cadernos Negros and the Field of Literary Production: The Authors and the Critics
Reflexoes and Criacao crioula: Rethinking Cadernos Negros's Literary Production
Chapter 4. Quilombhoje Authors and the Brazilian Canon
Poetry and Social Critique: Revisiting the Canon
Narrative and Social Literature: The Role of Race
Chapter 5. Quilombhoje Women's Writings: The Politics of Race and Gender
Empowering Black Women: Beyond Black and Feminist Movements
A Poetics of Resistance: Miriam Alves and Black Women's Identity
Esmeralda Ribeiro's Prose: From Social to Magical Realism
Conclusion: Afro-Brazilian Literature in a Democratic Society
Appendix 1. Afro-Brazilian Writers: A Small Biography
Appendix 2. Cadernos Negros
Appendix 3. "Livros do Autor"
