BLACK FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF REPRESENTATION: a study on self-inscription of encapoirados bodies in artistic practices.
Self-inscription, Angoleiras, Artistic Practices, Capoeira Angola, black feminist critique of representation
The present work presents a study about self - enrollment of black women in the "Brazilian culture", based on the artistic practices of Angolan women practicing Capoeira Angola. Investigating questions about representation and self-representation of black women in Brazilian society we find, in the study of black feminist theories, a critical feminist production of representation. It is the exposition of the problems facing the representation and representation of black and non-white women in the culture. Problems such as racism, whiteness and machismo that are "naturally" present in the narratives of creation (in the act of inventing the world and ourselves), elements that have become natural but that ultimately determine the right (or absence of it) to life. Our field of study deals with black and non-white Angolans in Salvador / BA, who develop artistic practices in other languages, with Capoeira Angola, an art of black resistance, as inspiration for their creations. The concept of "body encapoeirado" is developed by the black artist and researcher, Nildes Sena (2015), who shares his works and artistic narratives for this study. These are bodies that have inscribed in themselves the Capoeira Angola and that resist the existing structures provoking different dialogues of body, about body, questioning representation. Feminist black intellectuals such as Lélia Gonzales (1984), Sueli Carneiro (2002), Aparecida Bento (2002), Conceição Evaristo (2005, 2007) Grado Kilomba (2016) and Janja Araújo (1999, 2015, 2017) inspire and lay the foundations for this study. Their productions expose the artistic / intellectual narratives that impose silences, stereotypes and images of black women's desprestígio in the culture.