In this article, I investigate how Blackness as spectre – a deathly presence – underlies contemporary life in the Pampas through artistic representations of the “Negrinho do Pastoreio” folktale in the work of Italian-Brazilian painter Aldo Locatelli (Bergamo, 1915 – Porto Alegre, 1962). These pieces folklorise Blackness and fix Black haunting in the Pampas through visual motifs of placelessness, timelessness, suffering, “martyrdom”, flight, and resurrection. The tropes and folklorisation itself confine and consign the Black population to the region’s distant past, denying contemporary existence, subjectivity, and agency in the present. This study forms part of a larger project engaging literature, iconography, and oral testimony in a racialised re-reading of the Platine Region. This racial-spatial project investigates the place of Blackness in the real and imagined transnational Pampas. While cultural hegemony in the Region predicates itself upon spatial and temporal displacement of its Black population, my work probes and contests this historical assertion precisely by locating Blackness in the region, in what I envision as a real and imagined space: what I call the “Afro-Pampas”.

在本文中，我将研究“黑鬼”（一种死亡的存在）如何通过“ Negrinho do Pastoreio”民间故事的艺术表现在意大利巴西画家Aldo Locatelli（1915年，贝加莫，阿雷格里港， 1962）。这些作品通过无位置，永恒，苦难，“ mart难”，逃亡和复活的视觉图案使黑人在潘帕斯（Pampas）民俗化，并解决其困扰。座右铭和民俗化本身将黑人人口限制并寄托于该地区的遥远过去，否认了当代的当代存在，主体性和代理权。这项研究是一个较大的项目的一部分，该项目采用文学，肖像学和口头证词，以种族化方式对Platine地区进行重新阅读。这个种族空间项目研究了真实与想象中的跨国潘帕斯州黑人的地位。尽管该地区的文化霸权以其黑人人口的时空位移为基础，但我的工作正是通过将该地区定位为黑人，在我所设想的真实和想象的空间中，探寻并质疑了这一历史断言：我称之为“非洲南美大草原”。