Banca de DEFESA: DANILO FERREIRA GOMES

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : DANILO FERREIRA GOMES
DATE: 11/07/2023
TIME: 15:30
LOCAL: ESPAÇO VIRTUAL
TITLE:

Pastor Martin Luther King Jr.'s Pharmacy: Politics of Love as Healing Gestures for Racial Wounds

KEY WORDS:

Keywords: Martin Luther King Jr.; politics of love; no violence; pharmakon; black church;
black militancy.

PAGES: 142
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
SUMMARY:

The intellectual investment that I make in this research is a discussion about the love policies
of Pastor Martin Luther King Jr. I point out how the reverend's militancy is based on the
prophetic and libertarian tradition of the American black church, which, in turn, was forged by
Africans in the North American diaspora who began to confess the Christian faith, making
recodings typical of the heterogeneity of Afro-diasporic identities. I think of the public
personality of Pastor King from the triangulation of activist, poet and black prophet and inform
how his ethical-philosophical and methodological choice for non-violent resistance in the civil
rights movement of the African-American community is based theoretically and tactically,
above all, in the satyagraha of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi. Starting from a brief historical
remission of direct actions of non-violent resistance by blacks in the United States, I seek to
point out how non-violent resistance is feasible within black militancy. In view of the ambiguity
and ambivalence of politics of love, I invest in a reading of such policies from the notion of
phármakon (DERRIDA, 2005), trying to show how such policies, imbued with this
pharmacological character, can mobilize a healing movement in our world racially fractured. I
also try to point out that there is a black Brazilian church that, although drinking from the
sources of the church and black American theology, needs to forge its own theology and public
agenda, due to the challenges and endogenous peculiarities. Finally, I point to the irruption of
a black insurgency within the Brazilian evangelical church, pointing out its possible
contributions to the contemporary black movement. To epistemologically subsidize this
research venture, I use, in an interdisciplinary braid, the theoretical contribution of several
intellectuals from the fields of Theory of Literature, Cultural Criticism, Theology, Philosophy
and Human, Political and Social Sciences. Considering the imperativeness of the vocalization
of black subjects, in the face of the silencing to which they are socially subjected, which also
occurs in the academic field with its alleged neutrality, I speak, throughout the dissertation, in
an essayistic way, in the first person.

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