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We are not “Blacks”, we are not “Indians”: from African decolonization to Brazilian Indian Literature

Abstract

We will correlate African decolonization and Brazilian Indian literature, emphasizing three ideas: colonialism is the structuring axis of production of the Black and Indian as minorities racially justified, leading to their invisibilization, silencing and privatism, so they become represented by Whites as their tutor, master and proprietary; decolonization, which only can be made by the colonized group-subject, confers all protagonism to this same minor group-subject that, from this condition as sore and stigma racially-based, publicizes his voice and streamlines his critical-emancipatory praxis; and the aesthetical-literary construction becomes the place for normative self-constitution and thematization of the epistemological-political conditions that produce-reproduce political-cultural minorities, constituting itself as a key political instrument of facing eurocentrism-colonialism-racism. Decolonization, by promoting the voice and protagonism of and for minor group-subject, deconstructs the naturalized idea of Black, Indian, White etc., explicating them as politicity, relationality, normativity, and historicity.

Keywords:
decolonization; black; indian; deconstruction; engagement

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