“MEU CORPO-RAIZ”: O INSÓLITO CONTEMPORÂNEO E AS COSMOPERCEPÇÕES AFRO-BRASILEIRAS EM CONTOS DE CLARISSA MOURA

Abstract

The unusual, when of afro-brazilian authorship, takes a role in the construction and preservation of black memory and identity. In this paper, I propose an approximation of the unusual with the african-women production by black brazilian authors and their political and literary project through the resymbolization of the cosmoperception (Oyěwùmí, 2021), from the analysis of the tale “Raízes”, by the Paraíba writer Clarissa Moura, extracted from the anthology Casa Encantada, O Conto Fantástico Paraibano (2023). From a decolonial perspective, by means of bibliographical research with a predilection for black authors, I seek, in this paper, to comprehend the production of the contemporary unusual as a narrative of resistance, especially by african-women authors, enunciatory or denunciatory. For this, I take as basis the academic escrevivência (live-writing) (Felisberto 2020), directing the research and analysis of Clarissa Moura's work from the african-brazilian cosmoperception of Jurema and Umbanda in Paraíba (Silva e Ayala, 2000; Santiago, 2008; Lima, 2020) perceiving a aesthetic-discourse of the text as a symbolic representation of these cosmoperceptions. As an analysis method, I establish a dialogue between the escrevivência (Evaristo, 2005, 2009, 2020) and the Poetic Ferocity (Silva, 2018) in the field of the unusual aligned with the terreiro-literature (Freitas, 2016), tensioning the notion of real in the colonialist logic in an attempt to produce and share organic knowledge (Santos, 2018).