About us: affections and literature
Keywords:Black sapatão literary criticism. Brazilian literature. Affections. Subjectivities
ABSTRACT
This work is the result of a research in black literary texts and also about sexual and gender dissidences during the years of my doctoral studies. Following the affections of fear, love, anger, dengo and the erotic, I have tried to read and learn from these literary texts how we can use the affects so that these, from the colonial apparatus, would not perpetuate schemes of violence against us, racialized and disobedient people of the binary gender and Hetero-normativity.Which uses can we make of these affections so that, instead of killing us, They would be an act of striking back and a new possibility to live, stand alive. The chosen texts, for the most part, are by black sapatão women.Therefore, I sought to build a black sapatão literary criticism in view of my decision to move these writings also based on my own expe-rience. In order to do this, I have organized this work into nine essays: the first two opening essays, Chão and Rotas which presents and locates methodologically this survey; Reflexo, Quebrada, Devolução, Ginga, Perigosas and Zami are interdependent essays that offer some reflections on the uses of affections from the literary texts brought, made in dialogue with some important themes such as romantic love, miscegenation, sexual abuse, subjectivities and coloniality, essay writing, race, gender, sexuality and representation.And the final text, Nós – is an experimental – essay in which I wanted to open paths of reflection about our black and sapatonas lives.
Keywords:Black sapatão literary criticism. Brazilian literature. Affections. Subjectivities.