Afetividade e ancestralidade: ensaio crítico-literário sobre o amor negro na poesia de Cidinha da Silva e Gonesa Gonçalves

Abstract

The present work seeks, from an interpretative and critical reading, to discuss about the black love in the poetry of Cidinha da Silva and Gonesa Gonçalves, with emphasis on the poems The deep voice of the river (SILVA, 2016) and Oxum (GONÇALVES, 2020). The reviews here proposals are the result of concern about the ways in which black love is represented in the Brazilian literary canon, focusing on reflections pointed out by Dalcastagnè (2012), Assis (2020), Evaristo (1996), Souza (2007) to understand the literature produced by Afro-Brazilian poets. In this sense, the objective is to weave this writing through a essayistic, memoiristic and autobiographical diction, which begins with a theoretical re-reading of the experience of contact with the canon. The guiding principle of this study starts from the Afrodiasporic literary and philosophical perspective to reflect on the categories “love”, “Brazilian literature”, “black literature” (LOPES; SIMAS, 2020; NOGUEIRA, 2020; SANTOS, 2018; HOOKS, 2021; LORD, 2021; SILVA, 2018, POLESSO, 2020). THE In order to have theoretical-methodological coherence, bricolage is chosen as a methodology, given that the autobiography is woven through several references, including photographs, poems and songs, in addition to the theoretical framework built through research bibliography. As a result, two readings about love are presented, understood as dengo (NUNES, 2017), both starting from the body as a constructor of narratives: the first, based on Oxum, by Gonesa Gonçalves, showing motherhood, ancestry and spirituality; the second, stemming from A voz funda do rio, by Cidinha da Silva, emphasizing sexuality and affection between women.