RESISTANCE AND LITERATURE AUTHORIZED BY INDIGENOUS WOMEN: study of the poetics of Graça Graúna and Faumelisa Manquepillan

Abstract

This work aims to present an overview of resistance studies based on poems published by indigenous women from the Potiguara (Brazil) and Mapuche (Chile) ethnicities. Resistance literature is a field of literary theory that emerges in contexts of authoritarianism, states of exception, situations of barbarism, trauma or that thematizes such socio-historical and psychological conditions. Indigenous literatures bring within them forms of resistance to the domains of discriminatory hegemonic practices arising from a colonizing perception that still persists even in contemporary times. In view of this, we will observe the literature produced, Graça Graúna and Faumelisa Manquepillán Calfulo, poets who, through words, transcend resistance from the perspective of both gender and ethnic identity. As theoretical assumptions, we used Bosi (2000; 2002), Graúna (2013), Lugones (2008; 2014), among others. Through them, we will also observe literary resistance in the light of feminism from a decolonial perspective. Therefore, one of the contributions of this work is the joining of resistance literature to indigenous literatures, adding another narrative to this field, from a decolonial source that crosses bodies and texts that were, for a long time, excluded from literary studies.