“Talking back”: uma abordagem do pensamento radical de Bell Hooks

Abstract

This article proposes a particular approach to the work of the north-American theorist Bell Hooks, focusing on the relationship between her propositions about teaching and her considerations about love. According to our reading, these two axes of her production would be intrinsically related, and this relationship would be based: (a) on the legacy of the anti-colonial rising emerging in the second half of the twentieth century, as the movement Négritude and your opposition to the black problem [problème noir]; (b) on the involvement of the theorist in the civil rights movements; (c) and in her work in the feminist militancy. In order to defend our reading, initially we address the cultural advances provided by the anti-colonial insurgency, such as the Négritude movement. Then, we turn specifically to a selection of the works of hooks about teaching as libertarian practice and his writings on love. At the end, we seek to point out the possible contributions of radical thought. Thus, this text comes from a bibliographical research, in an exploratory-descriptive level, which, beyond the review of the writer’s estate, sought to propose a discussion about its contemporary scope.