Black-Brazilian literature; Black authorship; Lívia Natália.

This thesis, whose subject is the becoming of a black woman in the intersectional poetics of the black poet Lívia Natália, presents as its corpus of analysis the works Currents and other marine studies (2015) and Águas Negras and other waters (2017). Faced with this corpus, I outlined the following problem question: from the perspective of intersectionality, how do the body, self-definition and poetic autobiography appear in the aforementioned works? In this way, I hypothesize that by in(body)rating to the poetic matter weaves of self-definition, poetic autobiography and body, the poet Lívia Natália in her poetic productions, produces non- hierarchical or overlapping reflections on gender, race and class, promoting in her lyric an intersectional poetics. Specifically, I seek to articulate the concepts of intersectionality, becoming-woman and self-definition, as well as to define intersectional poetics by verifying its construction in the aforementioned works by Lívia Natália, in addition to identifying how black becoming-woman figures in this poetics. The thesis in progress is structured in five chapters, from which I intend to trace an analytical path on the poetic diction under study. I consider the poetic fabric inscribed with and from the black body as a mechanism of reexistence. In this sense, I carry out interpretative readings with a view to tracing an intersectional poetics.