IDENTIDADE, MEMÓRIA E ANCESTRALIDADE: AS VOZES DAS MULHERES INDÍGENAS EM POEMAS DE AURITHA TABAJARA E ELIANE POTIGUARA

Abstract

Indigenous writers have been, in recent decades, enhancing their voices and breaking with stereotypes through literary production of a lyrical-political nature, which aims at valuing identity and preserving memory and ancestry. From this perspective, this work aims to analyze how identity, memory and ancestry are cultivated in poems by female and indigenous authors, as well as to highlight the panorama of contemporary indigenous literature in Brazil, to analyze the concepts of identity, memory and ancestry and identify the importance of these concepts in the construction of two poems written by two indigenous women: “O grão”, by Auritha Tabajara, and “Identidade Indígena”, by Eliane Potiguara. For this, in this bibliographical research, we are theoretically based on the studies of Leno Danner, Julie Dorrico and Fernando Danner (2018; 2019), Maria Inês de Almeida (2009), Graça Graúna (2013), Daniel Munduruku (2017; 2018 ), Janice Thiél (2012) and Eliane Potiguara (2018). Based on our theoretical contributions, we conclude that indigenous literature by female authorship combats the silencing and erasure historically directed at this social group. In addition, they carry with them the strength of memory, identity and ancestry, preserving their traditions and keeping their cultures alive.