‘Living memories of the changing same’: Rio's linguistic landscape at the crossroads of time and race

Autor: Maria de Fátima Lima Santos, Rodrigo Borba, Branca Fabricio
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Language in Society. 51:797-818
ISSN: 1469-8013
0047-4045
DOI: 10.1017/s0047404522000628
Popis: This article questions the time of white modernity based on historical periodization and sequential progression, arguing for a more multifaceted approach to time and space in linguistic landscapes (LL). It rethinks the concept of chronotope by examining effects of the African diaspora in Brazil. The experience of radical uprooting it promoted fuses spatiotemporal dimensions that operate in complementary directions. On the one hand, a necrotope sets forth submission and destruction. On the other, visceral resistance to obliteration emerges when the timespace of encruzilhadas ‘crossroads’ is produced in the cracks of colonial power. The LL at Pedra do Sal in Rio de Janeiro suggests that approaching timespace from this perspective captures the juxtaposition of stasis and mobility, oppression and resistance, loss and life, past and present. We argue that thinking of time outside and against the Euro-chronometer requires decolonial epistemologies that have the potential to disrupt racist chronologies. (Chronotope, linguistic landscapes, African diaspora, temporality, race, Rio de Janeiro)*
Databáze: OpenAIRE