Paper short abstract:

To review the interdisciplinary relationship of domination, typical of modernity/coloniality & the arts as a tool to legitimize these dynamics. By a decolonial look, we will approach historical, social and political aspects, observing the relations between representation and imaginary construction.

Paper long abstract:

This paper approaches and emphasizes Brazilian black poetry as an epistemic response to the decolonial project. Here, black thought through poetry, is interpreted as contributing to decoloniality thinking, when it proposes a revision of the mode of social organization, when it discusses the transcendence of Eurocentrism, among other disobediences. Modernity / Coloniality, inseparable and hidden under the rhetoric of progress, imposes the unique thought and creates an asymmetry between few legitimate subjects and the constant denial to the thought and construction of other forms of life, reducing the existence of many, to the condition of exploited and worthless. Nonetheless, the subjects and voices subalternized throughout this project of exclusion, have always existed producing knowledge on the frontiers permeated by coloniality. The political characteristic of black art is consolidated as a space where it can finally be represented as a subject, to register the singularity and subjectivity of its historically denied peers. The experience of subjectivity depends on the insertion of the self in its own speech, therefore, literature plays a determining role in the process of emancipation of man. By situating reality, literary discourse can enhance the reading of the dynamics operated in society, being able to register multiple existences, amplify voices historically forgotten by the hegemonic discourse. In addition, we see the possibility of understanding how to accept these discourses can contribute to the decolonial foundation and, especially, to the exercise of otherness.