Entre escrever e existir - um estudo sobre negritude, resistência e liberdade em Sol Sanguíneo de Salgado Maranhão

Abstract

This research is done based on the poem: “Blood of the sun” by the northeastern poet Salgado Maranhão. It was published in the homonymous book Blood of the sun in 2002. The discussion of this research revolves around the themes presented by the meta-poem that poses issues about writing poetry in face of oppression. This oppression reaches the speaker that assumes a specific identity: one of a black man, racially and socially marked by these and other duties. Therefore, this research aims at understanding together with theorists such as Foucault (1971); West (2002), and Kilomba (2021) how the silencing violence is inflicted on black people. In addition, it is also discussed the place that was socially thought for black men supported by hooks (2015) and Rosa (2021), and how poetic writing has been subverting the stigma that incarcerates those bodies, thinking about a literary tradition of black male writers in Brazil that reinvent the boundaries of existing through words as Salgado Maranhão did in “Blood of the sun”.