“QUE PODE A MINHA POESIA CONTRA ISSO?”: EDIÇÃO, MERCADO E RACISMO NOS BASTIDORES DE KALUNGA, DE LANDE ONAWALE

Abstract

In the first decade of the 21st century, the Brazilian editorial Market has presented positive production and consumption rate of books in Brazil. Nevertheless, in this country, black writers are in an extremely restricted literary scene, specially when their books discuss strategies against racism and black empowerment. It is possible to see that in the 21st century the high costs, their interests and the editorial expectations imposed that black writers could submit their work to editions of their own responsibility or could present their books to smaller publishing houses. The editorial experience of Lande Onawale – a writer from Salvador, an important name for the literature of Bahia, with the publication of his book Kalunga: Poemas de um mar sem fim (2011) – is studied here as a starting point for understanding the production conditions when the author is the editor of his own text. Furthermore, we intend to analyze the connections between racism and publishing Market. Such investigations were based, from a theoretical and methodological point of view, on the work of Jerome McGann and Francis Don Mckenzie with textual criticism in a sociological perspective. In the meantime, the analyses made confirmed that black writers are even more challenged in order to publish and distribute their work, considering the multiple forms of racism that can be seen in the publishing Market from Bahia/Brazil on the various stages of the book production chain: edition, publication, distribution, circulation and critique.