A virada pós-colonial: experiências, trauma e sensibilidades transfronteiriças

Abstract

This article proposes the “post-colonial turn” as a movement that is not limited to the epistemological debate or the aesthetic construction of the text. I argue that the post-colonial turn gives centrality to what I call knowledge-testimony, which occurs from the experience of a collective trauma: colonialism-racism. In this perspective, I argue that their categories are formulated from other places of speech, which are, at the same time, places of affections. In dialogue with the “affective turn”, I explain the iconic trajectories of Frantz Fanon and Edward Said in order to expose the experiences of exile, diaspora, suffering and hybridity that configure the special structure of feelings in Raymond Williams’ terms that imbues such intellectual productions. Therefore, the return to the post-colonial founding authors allows for the extracting of provocations which promote the vitality of the current post-colonial turn.

Keywords

• biographies
• Edward Said
• Frantz Fanon
• place of speech
• postcolonialism
• worldview