Fim do mundo ou afrofuturo? Um estudo sobre as contranarrativas do afrofuturismo e do afropessimismo

Abstract

In this dissertation I seek to analyze the counter-narratives of Afrofuturism and Afropessimism, understanding them as a black conscience of the black, a reaction to the colonial discursive formations that Stuart Hall calls the discourse of the West and the Rest. Through the analysis of narratives, I investigate how the experiences exposed in black literature enable us to think about new possibilities of blackness, humanity, technologies and other interpretations for the black experience in Brazil. By associating black narratives and Afropessimistic and Afrofuturist theories, I try to think about how these counter-narratives contribute to reflections from our national context and can give new directions about what we understand about the diasporic and Brazilian black experience. Finally, based on the discoveries caused by the research, I propose the destruction of the human and a new periodicity to understand the black experience in Brazil, which I call slavery of the freedmen.