Brazilian literature of black authorship and its positions with white-centric operations of the hegemonic canon

• Main Author: Lucía Tennina
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Valle 2020-12-01
• Series: Poligramas
• Subjects: black authorship; brazilian literature; white-centeredness; slavery; canon
• Online Access: https://poligramas.univalle.edu.co/index.php/poligramas/article/view/10898/13143

In this article, first of all, a reading of the profile that defines the history of Brazilian literature is presented, accounting for its white-centeredness, with few exceptions. Also, is carried out an analysis of the historical and conceptual bases that were forging a circuit and a literary scene of black authorship. At the same time, the operations on the archive of slavery carried out by writers of black authorship in dialogue with the hegemonic canon are analyzed. The corpus of poems that make up this article focuses on authors of the 20th century: Carolina Maria de Jesus, Edimilson de Almeida Pereira, Eliane Marques, Oswaldo de Camargo, Cuti, Conceição Evaristo, Carlos Assumpção, Mel Duarte. The article starts from an expanded conception of literature, so that along with black authorship literature mention will also be made of non-literary cultural practices (such as photography and plastic arts).