Being a Quilombola and living in a Quilombo Discursive construction of contemporary black feminism in frictions between rural and urban cultures

Abstract

The article analyzes utterances by a quilombola leader from the mountainous region of the State of Rio de Janeiro, produced between 2019 and 2021. It points out in the micronarratives, in the oral modality of the Portuguese language, signs directly related to thematic axes developed by Lorde (2019), Gonzáles (2020 ) and Kilomba (2019), in the discursive-theoretical construction of black feminism, with emphasis on the territory/anti-racist struggle relationship. And topics of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of language about the narrator signal discursive interfaces between tradition and modernity. As a result, it re-dimensions the argumentativeness of quilombola speech, of colloquial register and linguistic variety present in the rural area of Rio de Janeiro. It evidences the thematic harmony and belonging of this discourse, in the order of reflection as well as praxis, with/to discourses in defense of identity, anti-racist and affirmative guidelines of the rights of traditional Brazilian communities and Afro-descendants in diaspora.