Rompendo silêncios: narrativas afrodescendentes no Brasil e na Alemanha

Abstract

O presente texto faz uma breve analise comparativa entre producoes literarias negras em lingua alema e em lingua portuguesa do Brasil. O foco da analise e o afronte a estrategia colonial do silenciamento, imposto ao povo negro em diaspora, operado na obra da poeta e ativista afro-alema May Ayim e da romancista afro-brasileira Ana Maria Goncalves. Trataremos da literatura da diaspora africana como ferramenta que “estilhaca a mascara do silencio” (EVARISTO, 2017), tanto na obra Um defeito de cor (2006), de Goncalves, como na poesia afro-alema de May Ayim e de sua traducao no Brasil, tracando paralelos e dialogos entre a literatura negra brasileira e a negra alema Breaking the silence: afrodescendant narratives in Brazil and in German The present text is a brief comparative analysis between Black literary productions in German and Brazilian Portuguese. The focus of the analysis is the defiance of the colonial strategy of silencing, inflicted on Black people in the diaspora, which can be seen in the work of the Afro-German poet and activist May Ayim and of the Afro-Brazilian novelist Ana Maria Goncalves. We will deal with African Diaspora Literature as a tool that “shatters the mask of silence” (EVARISTO, 2017), both in Goncalves's Um defeito de cor (2006), and in Ayim’s Afro-German poetry and its translation into Brazilian Portuguese, drawing parallels and dialogues between Black Brazilian literature and the Black German Literature. Keywords: Black Brazilian Literature. Black German Literature. Afrodiasporic Literature. Ana Maria Goncalves. May Ayim DOI: 10.28998/2317-9945.2019n63p247-259