Laboratory of Criticism on the Humanisms of the Literatures

Abstract

An activity is proposed to be applied to students of a subject on critical and historiographical reflection in the Literature course. Based on the reading of Afropessimism, by Frank Wilderson III, a debate will be held on how the writing of an essay is redesigned to ensure a commitment to black people. Wilderson rises up against conceptual and structural violence in this book. His ability to explain power relations was also learned from classes with Professor Edward Said. I would like a critical path that starts from your Afropessimist theory. Then, it would go through Said's engagement with the Palestinian people, and arrive at the historiography of a German intellectual exiled in Türkiye. Said claims that Erich Auerbach's Mimesis is the apogee of humanist practice, in which a diaspora Jew in Muslim exile wrote about the legacy of the representation of reality in Western literature. I propose an exercise in singularizing critical methods, in which we seek to identify common points, contrasts or variations. Bring humanism and the irreconcilable relationship between black people and humans into conflict, so that students can debate the implications of paradigms of violence and texts for the lives of some and the death of others.