GEO-PHOTOGRAPHIC DIALOGUES: “AMEFRICA LADINA” BY LÉLIA GONZALEZ IN “OTHER AMERICAS” BY SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
Maria Auxiliadora Da SILVA, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Flora Sousa PIDNER, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
The political-cultural category of “Amefricanity” proposed by Lélia Gonzalez directs us to reflect on other possibilities of regionalization for the American continent, beyond the idea of ??Latin America and Anglo Saxony. This traditional regionalization of America is based on criteria based on the hegemony of the colonizer and reduces cultural diversity to Eurocentric parameters, therefore white and European. By calling his first book – with his own geophotographic narratives – “Other Americas”, Sebastião Salgado also calls for other geographical perspectives for the continent and allows us to build other images that break with a unique story about the Ladino-American peoples. In this way, this text aims to produce dialogues between the ideas of Lélia Gonzalez and the photographs of Sebastião Salgado of the aforementioned work, towards reflections that think about America from counter-hegemonic parameters, reaffirming the presence of indigenous and African diversities in the historical formation -cultural and geographical, so often silenced; as well as revealing that it is a history of revolts, of strategies of cultural resistance, of free territorial organizations such as the quilombos, of changes in the colonizers' own languages, among other manifestations of Ladino-Amefricanity. Such proposals – both elaborated in the mid-1980s – seem to have been made to complement each other and allow a deeper understanding of the continent. Both Gonzalez and Salgado accessed what connects Brazil to other countries in the Americas based on its ties with Africa and indigenous roots, which shows the similarity and substance that justify the term Améfrica Ladina. Améfrica Ladina is, therefore, a historical creation of ours, provided by the African diaspora and indigenous resistance, which maintain ties between America and Africa.
Mots clés : Améfrica Ladina|Other Americas|cultural diversity|dialogues
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