Performances of Spiral Time

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Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Leda Maria Martins

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In Performances of Spiral Time, famed Afro-Brazilian thinker Leda Maria Martins theorizes forms of African and African diasporic temporality, corporeality, and space that exist apart from and critique Eurocentric notions of linear time. Martins introduces the notion of “spiral time”—curved and recurrent temporalities materialized in Black corporealities in which the body is the place of the inscription of memory and knowledge. She draws on African and African diasporic philosophy as well as the ritual performance and quotidian practices of Afro-Brazilians, arguing that spiral time is most powerfully expressed by the moving body. Embodied performance—whether manifested as capoeira, CandomblÉ, or theater—and the influence of oral traditions, sacredness, and ancestrality, cause time and memory to curve and return. With this theorization, Martins not only counters the claim to dominance of Western linear time; she provides a polyvalent and foundational account of African and African diasporic thought and ontology.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-26
Mått152 x 229 x 8 mm
Vikt445 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieDissident Acts
Antal sidor160
FörlagDuke University Press
MedarbetareMoten,Fred
ISBN9781478032557
ÖversättareBarros, Bruna, Oliveira, Jess

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“Ambitious and beautifully written, Performances of Spiral Time shows how to read elements of African and Indigenous American philosophy in the practices and discourses of the Americas. Leda Maria Martins shifts understandings of the temporal and the corporeal by approaching the body as or in movement. Excellently translated, this work of African Diasporic philosophy takes advantage of the poetics of the Portuguese language and, in doing so, embodies the argument in its form.”—Denise Ferreira da Silva“Performances of Spiral Time offers an introduction to Afro-Brazilian cultural poetics. Written in lyrical, evocative, yet explanatory prose, it serves as a primer on how to see and think about the world from a performative perspective. The book conveys not just an idea of orality, spiral time, and ancestrality, but also the experience of them—what it feels like to inhabit a universe defined by these elements that lie at the heart of African diasporic cultures in the Americas.”—Mary Louise Pratt