Kehinde fala de um lugar distante: a errância, a crioulização e o letramento da protagonista de "Um defeito de cor"

Abstract

Kehinde was born in Africa and watched the murders of her mother and brother. Kidnapped by a slave ship, she disembarks in Brazil by yourself, as her sister and grandmother die during the crossing. A journey that became common to the protagonist of the historical novel Um defeito de cor, writer by Ana Maria Gonçalves, as it itinerante circuit refers to the trips that the narrator needs to make, in the most of the time in search of her lost son, sold slavery by his father. Wandering, a concept coined by Édouard Glissant (2017), is the character’s displacements, witch helped to build her identity, a hybrid construct, a characteristic that Glissant (2017) calls creolization and witch forms the gonçalvian protagonist as her literacy it breaks with the modern/colonial tradition and makes her a positive example, aimed to the common good.