THE BODIES OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE IN LITERATURE (Atena Editora)

Abstract

This article aims to point out some considerations about the place that bodies of cultural difference, (women, black people, children, indigenous people, migrant quilombolas, immigrants, refugees and LGBTQIA+), occupy in the official literary discourse of Latin America, proposing from the thoughts post-modern, post-colonial and decolonial, the decolonization of knowledge, hegemonies, and above all of being itself. Homi K. Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Gayatri C. Spivak, Bell Hooks, Grada Kilomba, Carolina Maria de Jesus and Conceição Evaristo appear within this discussion, as well as other Latin American theorists and those of different nationalities, to contribute to the understanding that The bodies of cultural difference have never had a voice, time or place in Latin American literature, especially black women. However, these minority groups are endowed with knowledge that, once expressed, through their songs, narratives, writings, memories, images, cults, beliefs, faces, bodies and many other possibilities, problematize official history. And this implies unveiling discourses of absolute truths, of power, and breaking with hegemonies (society, church, family) that have always dictated rules, orders, places and positions.