Poética e religiosidade negras / afrobrasileira em Cadernos Negros: fluxos identitários nas encruzilhadas

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze black and Afro-Brazilian identity expressions through the lens of religiosity, in selected poems extracted from the publication Black Notebooks, within the 1988 to 2008 timeframe. There are eleven volumes that encompass a vast amount of poems in which both poets and poetess underscore the importance of core values, such as the concept of the sacred, the relationship with the cosmos and nature, as well as the principle of ancestry vis-à-vis the constitution of identities in the country. Due to the unique dynamics that these identities manifest in contemporary literary texts, the analysis focuses on the paradigm of the crossroads, since the dominant conceptual method is unable to represent the multicultural features contained in these identities.