Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ANA CAROLINA PEDROSA PONTES

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ANA CAROLINA PEDROSA PONTES
DATE: 11/10/2023
TIME: 13:00
LOCAL: ESPAÇO VIRTUAL
TITLE:

IBIRI-ki: sewing gesture for other imaginations

KEY WORDS:

Ibiri-ki; Crossroads Methodology; Stella do Patrocínio; Dona Zôi; anti-
asylum mental health.

PAGES: 112
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
SUMMARY:

What I refer to as IBIRI-ki here is a poetic and literary gesture that involves a return to
memory, both ancestral and living, and also a process of disruption. This movement of
return in itself gives rise to other intricate layers in language and senses. I commence
from the poetics of my personal confessions, where I connect my initiation into Vodun
Nanã with a quest for alternative concepts of healing. These concepts originate from
different ways of existence and systems of interpretation, ultimately giving rise to novel
connections with life. My learning to write occurred in the company of mental health
guests with anti-asylum perspectives. As a result, it becomes pressing for me to
contemplate language and creation in conjunction with the illness x mental health
paradigm, from other perspectives of the world. The poetic lives of Stella do Patrocínio
and Dona Zôi, both Black women whose lives were disrupted due to mental suffering
and the societal stigma associated with mental health – in different manners, one
through institutionalization and the other through independent care – form the
theoretical groundwork of this exploration. Through the juxtaposition of my personal
journey, the embodied poetry of Stella and Dona Zôi, and the mythopoetics of Nanã,
the Ibiri, Nanã's instrument, melds with the Oriki, a literary form from the Yoruba
tradition. This fusion guides us in the intricate pathways of this investigation, creating
diverse contours, geographies, landscapes, and imaginative realms. Oriki imparts
verse to names, individuals, objects, the animate, and the products of life. These are
uncomplicated verses akin to poetic gestures, succinct narratives that, when combined,
synergize with the ancestral essence of the poem, the unspoken, and the
imponderable. Ibiri stands as the instrument embodying Nanã's domains and dances. It
signifies the processes of return, rupture, distillation, and the reinterpretation of
linguistic motions, as well as life itself, all in opposition to the stifling effects of the
stigma surrounding mental health. The Ibiri-ki weaves encounters along multiple lines,
which here stem from the visual and audiovisual creation present in the thesis, as the
birthplace of the writing, and which also establishes within itself what I understand as
the Crossroads Methodology, a mode of investigation provided by the research and
woven not only through the encounter of these lines, but through the chimeras - the
processes of poetic hybridization between them.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 3365799 - LIVIA MARIA NATALIA DE SOUZA SANTOS
Interna - 2522438 - SUZANE LIMA COSTA
Externa à Instituição - MARIA DE FÁTIMA LIMA SANTOS