'Our skin is a monument': corpo, raça, mulher em alguma poesia africana em português

Abstract

My article focuses on how poetic word works as an instrument of emancipation in issues related to gender and race in the Portuguese-speaking African space and diaspora. Starting from the 1950s and from the notebook / manifesto Poesia Negra de Expressão Portuguesa organized by Mário Pinto de Andrade and Francisco José Tenreiro, and considering the idea that knowledge and its artistic manifestations create genealogies of concepts, I intend to present a brief overview to illustrate the moments of rupture and cleavage that have existed in the evolution of such themes. In this context, particular attention will also be paid to the most recent experiences of new textualities created in Portugal by Afro-descendant and anti-racist subjectivities, such as Djidiu: A Herança do Ouvido, an idea of collective textual production contaminated by practices such as rap or slam poetry.