Como considerar uma história de pátria no meio deste cemitério continental: a violência sobre os povos Yanomami durante a pandemia da Covid-19

Abstract

Indigenous literature offers the self-history of Indigenous peoples and the possibility of also being understood as a literature of survival. To consider Indigenous textualities as a means of producing knowledge and updating memories is to consider and conclude that they are a literature of existence and recognize it as a means of resistance to a society that has built a legacy of violence from colonization to the present day. The coloniality of being, in its most varied historical expressions, constitutes the matrix of a system structured to produce absences, inequalities, and domination over Indigenous peoples. In the pandemic scenario, Indigenous letters have resonated with the voices of peoples who have always faced death, especially when that death results from state negligence, which favors necropolitics. This article aims to highlight, through Indigenous literature, the traces of colonial violence that dehumanize a society through the process of invisibilizing the other to produce a politics of death, as observed with Indigenous peoples, particularly the Yanomami, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study involved bibliographical and documentary research, of a qualitative nature, and assumes an autoethnographic perspective by considering the exercise of alterity in the act of critical and sensitive reading by the author/researcher on the modes of community articulation present in these writings, which initially allowed identifying indigenous literature as politics of the living and resistance to necropolitics in which cooperation initiatives led by indigenous figures represented forms of political, identity, literary affirmation and, mainly, of survival, healing, resistance and (re)invention of other possible worlds in the face of a continental cemetery built in a single country.