A ESCRITA DO FIM DO MUNDO: POR UMA LITERATURA DECOLONIAL DE MULHERES SERTANEJAS NA PARAÍBA

Abstract

Decolonial feminism values the strengthening of voices marginalized by a Eurocentric system that disseminates coloniality, therefore, subjects crossed by their intersectionalities, be they race, class, gender, geographic location, among others, who actively resist constructions and oppressions Europeanized, are representative of this movement. That way, being countryside women, permeated by various social oppressions, especially gender, who struggle to circumvent their pre-determined position, they are also subject to decoloniality. In view of this, literature becomes one of these ways of (re)existing, based on this reflection, it is also possible to observe the absence of writers from Paraíba, especially those from the countryside, in cultural and academic environments, demonstrating a certain erasure of their existences, although they exist, linked to an archaic ideal of the backlands. Through such problematization, this study seeks, through an analysis of the book Ritos e Versos para o Fim do Mundo (2022), produced by country writers from Paraíba, to identify which themes are written by those woman, their resistance, subjectivities and conflicts, based on decoloniality and studies on backlands. This research is based on a bibliographic methodology of a qualitative nature in the decolonial studies of Lugones (2014, 2020), Curiel (2020), Gonzalez (2020a, 2020b) among others, for discussions about women and backlands we base ourselves on Veiga (2019), Moreira (2016) etc., in addition to conducting an interview with one of the book's organizers, Lua Lacerda. The results obtained point to complexity, significance, plurality of genres and themes, diversity of authors spread across the interior of the state and, mainly, a resistant and affective stance in the literature of these women.