La creatividad negra: una facultad humana al servicio del empoderamiento afroibérico (siglos XVI y XVII)

Textuality has always been the Western unit of knowledge, thus (de)signifying Black non-written manifestations of creativity. In analyzing early modern Black dancers, musicians and poets, my contribution explores both kinetic, musical, and verbal creativity. I argue that gestures, rhythms, oral productions and sounding landscapes are part of the intangible, but nonetheless real, Black archive. Also, I provide examples of textual creativity. In my argument, the fact of having scarce evidence needs to be read as part of the historical violence on fragmentary Black archives. I propose to read Juan Latino’s work not as an exception to the rule but as part of an engagement of Black Africans with the potential textual creations of the period.