A poesia afro-brasileira de Salgado Maranhão: trilhas de identidade e memória em O Mapa da Tribo

Abstract

This paper presents a study of the african-Brazilian poetry Salgado Maranhão, from the analysis of the work of the tribe map, with a focused approach to issues of identity and memory, with the theoretical contributions studies of Candau (2012), Duarte (2011), Pereira (2010), Walter (2009), Hall (2005), Le Goff (2003), among others. Initially, specific discussions are raised with respect to a path of african-Brazilian literature from the eighteenth century to the present day, showing the existence of a quilombo function within his speech, issues relating to its position in the general framework of the literature Brazil, as well as the elements that theorize its conceptualization. They point to some voices, works and times of this literature, privileging production in the poetic genre. As the representations of memories and recurring identities in the african-Brazilian poetic discourse, readings of poems by different authors and authors are made, highlighting the contemporary production, in which the works are located Salgado Maranhão whose african-Brazilian trait is emphasized. In the book's analysis The tribe map are read poems that show how crossroads, where a poetic voice situated in this dialogue with voices from the past, from which emerge identity representations, verbal quilombos, a poetic landscape exusíaca feature marked by puzzles the images, the ambivalence and the metaphorical disguise.