O pensamento decolonial e os feminismos negros diaspóricos : as rotas que se cruzam para pensar a reexistência em Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

This thesis investigates a set of verbal-visual statements critical of coloniality and its profound psychic and material consequences, which have guaranteed and continue to guarantee the continuous and violent process of material, cultural, sexual and intersubjective exploitation of subalternized populations. The aim of this thesis is to examine how the artistic and intellectual production of writer Conceição Evaristo is transformed into a powerful ethical-political instrument for denouncing suffering, (re)affirming oneself and producing other realities. It is assumed that the rexistentialist discourse present in the cultural artifacts that the author-character produces is one of the main points that this investigation focuses on. The main proposition is that rexistentialist production is precisely a borderline form of research and production that is constituted as a liberatory ethical-political project based on its opposition to the monorational and universal domination produced by Modernity/Coloniality. In this way, rexistentialism appears as a space for individual writing and also as a collective effort that requires new analytical and theoretical operators that have the effect of transforming the social and political reality of black subjects. It is an act of foundation, as Conceição Evaristo (2021) states. I would emphasize that the purpose of this work is not to "make people speak" or "give them a voice". After all, the capacity for agency has never been non-existent for racialized and subalternized subjects; what has happened, however, is that History (as the product of a colonial narrative and, at the same time, its most effective device) has been busy ignoring, erasing and intentionally denying the multiple manifestations produced outside the axis of Modernity/Coloniality. Especially when these manifestations were/are critical of this binomial. It must be assumed that through art, critical-emancipatory subjectivity gains materiality and finds the necessary means to resist the multifaceted condition of coloniality. The aim of this work is to articulate the concepts of coloniality (Quijano, 1992); writing (Conceição, 2007); structural racism (Almeida, 2018); psychopathology (Fanon, 2008); epistemicide (Grosfoguel, 2008); necropolitics (Mbembe, 2016); sorority (Piedade, 2017) and machismo and sexism (Crenshaw, 2002) in order to understand the discourses, practices and resistances against the maintenance of the global pattern of power. In this process of decolonizing Being, the weight of the word and the strength of silence are sides of the same coin.