ABSTRACT
The present article, after a preliminary critical analysis of the presence of Africa in studies around World Literature, proposes to think about the inclusion of African authors and works in the debate on the issue from Achille Mbembe’s mobility paradigm. In Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization (2019MBEMBE, Achille. Sair da grande noite: ensaio sobre a África descolonizada. Petrópolis: Editora Vozes, 2019. ), Mbembe thinks about Africa and its cultural productions from an “Afropolitan” perspective, that is, not only through the binary opposition center/periphery but from the possibilities opened by the multiple alternative circulations that have proliferated in recent decades, placing the continent at the heart of a dense network of global exchanges. This is another “afrotopos”, as Felwine Sarr would say, an epistemological change that would force us to reconsider the way we think about literature and cultures on the African continent, highlighting precisely the dense global relations and circulations that shape them.
Keywords:
World Literature; Comparative Literature; Africans Literatures; Eurocentrism; Circulation