abstract
This work proposes to discuss some aspects of the aesthetic, political, ethical and ontological impact of Native American poetics in Brazilian contemporary literature, considering some poems from Roça barroca, by Josely Vianna Baptista, and the anthology Cantos ameríndios, which opens the collection Poesia.br, organized by Sergio Cohn. The aim is to discuss how Native myths provoke a becoming-minor that decentralizes our literary canon, destabilizes the Portuguese language, "reads history against the grain", and blurs the frontiers between human and non-human, self and other.
Keywords:
Amerindian poetry; Brazilian contemporary literature; becoming-minor