Perspectivas sobre intelectualidades negras baianas nas ausências e presenças na Festa Literária Internacional de Cachoeira

Abstract

The dissertation proposes to present a critical reading about the (in) visibility and stigmatization of Bahian black intellectuals within the International Literary Festival of Cachoeira (FLICA) in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013, from the reading of the registration forms that the event's organization sends to the Federal Government's Fazcultura project. Bahian intellectual production is seen in this writing as knowledge that transcends academic spaces, taking into account other forms of literary practice that dialogue with the social and human rights of the black population. For this, this process will be conducted in dialogue with narratives of a black bookseller woman in transit (São Paulo - Bahia - World), who through the experiences with black traditions identified in the body that dances, that moves, that plays and that a writing which results in the production of black intellectuals that emerge horizontally. FLICA, in turn, represents a space of encounters and contradictions that chooses the city of Cachoeira as a scenery-landscape to build dialogues between a class of intellectuals linked to the major industries of the publishing and television market and, at the same time, does not correspond the production needs of local publishers, who during those years did not attend the literary event. After a critical analysis of FLICA, we found that the event's organization partially engaged in its dialogue with the community of Cachoeira. Furthermore, Bahian intellectuals are made invisible within the spaces of speech and power, being subjected to the spectacularization of the stages and / or to the standards of table mediators. The criticism of the event has as theoretical support the productions of Abdias do Nascimento, Angela Davis, Beatriz Nascimento, Édouard Glissant, Homi K. Bhabha, Leda Maria Martins, Néstor García Canclini, Sodré Muniz and Stuart Hall, which provide key concepts that can be mobilized for critical writing about the editorial market, black cultures and intellectuals.