A Voz Liberta: a poética de resistência em Eu, Mulher Negra, Resisto, de Alzira Rufino

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse how the poetic voice structures, from the production of being, knowing and knowing, aesthetic representations that bring out signs and meanings in the text that organize thoughts of freedom, resistance and ancestry, precisely in Eu, mulher negra, resisto, by Alzira Rufino. The research is based on theorists and scholars who explore the nuances contemplated in Rufino's poetic writing, with a thought that welcomes the essence of subjectivity into the poetic space of language to announce what it means to be a black woman's body/experience in the world. In this sense, writing can be understood as freeing one's voice to talk about oneself - a black woman - and also about the history of being a woman. As we know, the history of women, especially black women, has always been marked by battles and resistance. Considering these facts, Alzira Rufino makes her poetic text a space to say no to this attempt to erase the knowledge, the projection of thought and the intellectuality that lies in being a black woman. With this gaze, Rufino fissures the poetic text with the desire to confront and excavate, from his own history, reverberations of a self-definition that values the consciousness and conception of the black subject against all forms of domination, namely: social, historical and politicalphilosophical. To this end, among the scholars who underpin this study, we highlight: bell hooks (2019; 2023), Grada Kilomba (2019), Angela Davis (2016) and Lélia Gonzalez (1984), who discuss the condition of black women, their struggles and their achievements. In addition to them, we have Giorgio (2004), Achille Mbembe (2018) and Patricia Hill Collins (2022), who respectively discuss: the regime of exception; slave conditions and necropolitics; the conditions of women and the inequalities they face. As far as possible conclusions are concerned, we can say that Alzira Rufino's poetry allows women to be the protagonists of their own history. This author brings strong and resistant characters, denouncing in her poetry the structural racism that exists in Brazilian society, debunking the myth of racial democracy that tries to mask the discrimination suffered by black women