Nos olhos de mulheres negras : estudo das poéticas de Cristiane Sobral, Jenyffer Nascimento e Lívia Natália

Abstract

All kinds of knowledge are constructed from a locality and a culture, it is impossible to build a text outside a culture as it is impossible for a theory to exist above it’s object/subject of analysis and to reflect impartially on it. The concept of poetry, like all art concepts, is also connected with a specific space-time. In the present work, we analyze the poems of the authors Cristiane Sobral, Jennyfer Nascimento and Lívia Natália, writers who assume and do not disguise, through their statements, the space-time from where their games with the poetic words are from. The task of highligtning these authors as producers of afro-brazilian literature (ALVES, 2010; CUTI, 2010; PEREIRA, 2010), in counterpoint to hegemonically white brazilian literature (CUTI, 2011; ROMERO, 1886; ROMERO, 1953; DELCASTAGNÈ, 2005;), will allow the understanding of two processes. The first one confirms that the existence of afro-brazilian literature denounces the theoretical problems established by literary historiography and by social theory about the black population, which have always reinforced anti-black institutional racism; the second process confirms that it is possible, and necessary, to theorize about afro-brazilian literature from the knowledge of black men and black women from diaspora and from Africa (FREITAS, 2016; GOMES, 2008; LUZ, 2000; THEODORO, 1996). Through the analysis of the poems of these three poets, using as foundation the theories of black feminism (BAIRROS, 2014, hooks, 1995, KILOMBA, 2016; THEODORO, 2008), of the literary reflections of black authorship and of the african matrix, it is possible to demonstrate how poetics play with these knowledges and transform it into poetry.