JINJILA: CAMINHOS ESCREVIVENTES DA ANCESTRALIDADE PRETA NA LITERATURA-TERREIRO KIMBUNDU-BAIANA
Black Ancestry; Writing; Literatura-terreiro Kimbundu-Baiana; Umbanda
Bantu/Kongo-Angola.
Jinjila: caminhos escreviventes da literatura-terreiro kimbundu-baiana proposes research and
study on the way in which the discourses of Kimbundu-Bahian terreiro-literature are established
as essential in the elaboration of epistemologies for reading and producing black literature. This
work has as its guiding concept Black Ancestry, which I title in these lines because it is the
matrix of all the epistemological categories that African nations founded; the way so many of
us in the diaspora understand and craft stories. In this context, for the nation of my home-terreiro
of Umbanda Bantu-Kongo/Angola and for the Kimbundu language studies that I develop as a
teacher in training – NUPEL/UFBA, I highlight the strength of Kimbundu-Bahian literature,
producer of lexicons and important disseminator of Bantu worldviews in Bahian territory,
written by Lande Onawale, Kota Gandaleci, Louise Queiroz and Davi Nunes in the works:
Kalunga: poemas de um mar sem fim e Pretices e Milongas (poemas) de Lande Onawale;
Kwame: a menina de vento e água. (2023); Girassóis estendidos na chuva. (2019) e Gonzo
(2023) de Louise Queiroz; Bakulo (2018) de Kota Gandaleci; Bucala, a princesa do quilombo
do Cabula (2015); Um dia para famílias negras (2021) e Zanga (2018) de Davi Nunes; due to
the diversity of their textualities, their gestures, their dictions, their entries and particularities,
activating the perception of the multimodality of black writings from the perspective of terreiro
literature (FREITAS, 2016). Here begins a path that is also writing, which theorizes and
documents the poetics of these Bahians and men, making this work possible.