LITERATURA DIASPÓRICA: IDENTIDADE AFRO-BRASILEIRA NAS POESIAS DE SOLANO TRINDADE E ELISA LUCINDA

Abstract

The following research aims to analyze the aspects that form the afro-brazilian identity on the poems of Elisa Lucinda and Solano Trindade (1908-1974). Amongst many poems analyzed, it has been chosen, for instance, Mulata exportação and Navio Negreiro, which are considered to be part of the black literature field. The majority part of the texts that will be analyzed can be found on the books O semelhante (1994) and Vozes Guardadas (2016), from Elisa Lucinda, and O poeta do povo (2008), written by Solano Trindade. Through a categoric structure, it will be carried out analyses that contribute to the affirmative resignification of the black identity that was, historically, stigmatized. The categories entitled: orality; musicality; storytelling; clash; exaltation of beauty and desire; ancestry and collective memory will organize the inherent aspects of a diasporic culture, looking forward to the enhancement of the black subjectivity. In the light of the studies of black people’s cause’s researchers and activists, as Frantz Fanon, Lélia Gonzales, Kabengele Munanga, Leda Maria Martins, Elio Ferreira, Sueli Carneiro, Luiz Silva Cuti, and others, some reflective notes will be carried out by a gender bias in regard to racial relations on Brazilian’s society, that, since the slavery period, enhances the black stereotypes.