Adé: ancestralidade africana e sexualidade em narrativas de homens negros dos candomblés da ilha de Itaparica e Salvador

Abstract

This project investigates the uses and appropriations of the Yoruba word "Adé", roughly translated as "homosexual". Based on the bibliographical review of literature on black homosexuality and ancestral sexualities, the study delves into the complex reception of the work A Cidade das Mulheres, by Ruth Landes (1947) and its anthropological imbroglio, pointing out the entry in question as a remnant of terreiro literature. In the exercise of a refusal, and due to the potential fugitive quality of transnational translations, ways of conceptually crossing the word are established, at the same time as dimensioning and intending an original and/or unique meaning. In this sense, the gestures indicate the breaking of a cis- heternomative logic of white supremacy over corporeality in an anti-black world. Adapting the black-feminist experiment of Black Light, suggested by Denise Ferreira da Silva (2024), in the sight of spiraling time performances (MARTINS, 2021), illuminative manipulation emerges, which aims to capture the bodily strategies of letting oneself be seen in silence, to be applied in the "field", which here we call "terreiro". In the end, we understand an apositionality (MOTEN, 2023) defined by Adé Dudu, Group of Black Homosexuals, of the Unified Black Movement, and people known as adé, from the Island of Itaparica and Salvador, Bahia, whose results are presented as biomythographies (LORDE, 2024) in an attempt to apply the genre that juxtaposes biographical elements, historical documents and fictional exercise, in order to confer the axé, vital energy, of these narratives.