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READING OF AIMÉ CÉSAIRE, CHOSEN TEXTS: “THE TRAGEDY OF KING CHRISTOPHE, DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM, DISCOURSE ON BLACKNESS

Jaqueline Lima Santos e José Fernando Peixoto. Mediation: Isabel Diegues.

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All ages

120'

Free admission

11 Sep ∙ Sunday ∙ 4:00 pm

Sesc Santos
R. Conselheiro Ribas, 136 - Aparecida, Santos - SP

Among the three creations of the Martinican poet, playwright, and essayist Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) present in the posthumous book recently published by the Coleção Encruzilhada by Editora Cobogó, the play “The Tragedy of King Christophe” discusses the historical reality of Haiti at the beginning of the 19th century and analyzes the notions of colonial domination, post-colonial nation, leadership, and identity through the situation of that country after French colonization. After the reading, participating artists, the anthropologist Jaqueline Lima Santos and the director of the collection, José Fernando Peixoto de Azevedo, establish dialogue based on the work.

Mediation: Isabel Diegues

JAQUELINE LIMA SANTOS (BRA)

Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and Harvard Alumni Fellow (USA). She works as a teacher, researcher, and consultant in equity, race, gender, diversity, education, childhood and youth, Afro-Brazilian and African history and culture, and PALOP (Portuguese-speaking African countries). She coordinates the Hip-Hop em Trânsito research line at the Center for International Migration Studies (CEMI Unicamp).

JOSÉ FERNANDO PEIXOTO DE AZEVEDO (BRA)

Ph.D. in philosophy from USP, professor at the School of Dramatic Art and the graduate program in performing arts at ECA-USP. He published “Eu, um Crioulo” for n-1 editions. He coordinates the Encruzilhada collection, by Editora Cobogó. In 1997 he founded the Teatro de Narradores; he wrote and directed works with the group Os Crespos. His recent works are “Um Inimigo do Povo,” “As Mãos Sujas,” “Navalha na Carne Negra,” and “Trauminhalt.Manifest.”

ISABEL DIEGUES (BRA)

editorial director of Cobogó in Rio de Janeiro. She graduated in language and literature from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio) and worked as a screenwriter, producer, and film director. Author and organizer of more than ten books, coordinator of the Dramaturgy Collection, and creator of the Cabeças da Periferia and Encruzilhada collections, in the house she edits.