Beatriz Nascimento: projeto étnico-literário e antropologia e literatura autoral negra

Abstract

This article discusses the poetry of the activist, historian and poet Beatriz Nascimento. Her textuality addresses the black presence in the Brazilian diaspora and culminates in an ethno-literary project. It is a reflection on black aestheticizations. These are positive literary representations, detached from stereotypes of violence and slavery. There is a confluence with anthropology and literature by black authors, as the intellectual’s symbolic imaginary derives from mimicries of freedom, presented in spatial, identity and cultural approaches. The analysis is based on the categories of crossroads and ancestry. The methodology is Afro-diasporic phenomenology.