Surrealism’s spirit was already embedded in African social tradition

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• Surrealist practice was an ongoing way of life in African cultures (similarity 0.84)
• African philosophy must arise from its own cultural circumstances rather than replicate other traditions. (similarity 0.83)
• African socialism was criticized for seeking modernization through traditionalization (similarity 0.81)
• Surrealism served colonized writers as a weapon against colonial language (similarity 0.80)
• Surrealism bridged Marxism and the Black Radical Tradition. (similarity 0.80)
• European surrealists adopted anticolonial and anti-Western positions that attracted Black radicals (similarity 0.80)
• Surrealism confirmed rather than revealed Césaire’s African consciousness (similarity 0.80)
• Even anticolonial Egyptian nationalists reproduced demeaning stereotypes of Sudanese slaves. (similarity 0.79)
• Their pragmatism drew on Somali mores, Islamic piety, and equality. (similarity 0.79)
• Tempels held that Africans express thought only through ritual, not discourse (similarity 0.79)
• France eradicated African languages, slavery, customary law, and chieftaincies to spread republicanism. (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian nationalism’s founder also codified racial disdain for the Sudanese (similarity 0.79)
• Surrealist method could reach a pre-colonial black self beneath French acculturation (similarity 0.78)
• Egyptian and British stereotypes of Sudan as savage persisted unchanged for decades (similarity 0.78)
• Calls for new culture come from socially displaced old strata, not new ones (similarity 0.78)