Literaturas produzidas por mulheres indígenas no Brasil: plasticidades, ressurgências e cosmovisões

Abstract

This study presents a survey and analysis of literary productions made by indigenous women who have sketched, in the Brazilian literature, an aesthetic and ideological project of authorship/autonomy and survival, from the year 2004 in Brazil. Therefore, I selected 23 books, signed by Eliane Potiguara, Graça Graña, Lia Minápoty, Sulami Katy, Márcia Kambeba, Niara Terena, Kerexu Mirim, Denízia Cruz, Shirley Krenak, Vângri Kaingãng and Auritha Tabajara. The general objective is to analyze and discuss, throughout the sections, a study on the literary productions (poetry and prose) of these indigenous women in Brazil, differentiating indigenous, indigenist and Indian literature through the critical reading of three aesthetic concepts present in the works:(1) the literary plasticities; (2) a view of a resurgence’s literature; (3) the indigenous worldview as a backdrop of the writings. I discuss these concepts based on theoretical assumptions of Édouard Glissant (1996), Eneida de Souza (2002), Siloé Amorim (2003), Eliane Potiguara (2004), Maria Gorete Neto (2005), Gersen Luciano (2006), Elisa Maria Costa Thiago (2007), Marta Gonçalves (2009), Olívio Jekupé (2009), América César (2011), Amanda de Lima (2012), Graça Graúna (2012, 2013), Stuart Hall (2013), Henrique Freitas (2016), Marília Librandi (2018), among others. As a final result of this research, I intend to facilitate the circulation of writings produced by women who are concerned with showing themselves diverse, building perspectives in the literary field. Due to the need for literary democratization, these productions indicate that if there are absence of racial and ethnic approaches in the contemporary literature of greater national circulation, there is presence of these approaches in the enunciative acts of indigenous authorship corpus of this dissertation work