O FIM DO MUNDO E FABULAÇÕES DE FUTURO

UMA LEITURA DE AUTORIAS AFRO-DIASPÓRICAS

Abstract

“I want to write about my body/the notes of the songs of the end of time,” says Ecuadorian writer Yuliana Ortiz in Canto VI of her Songs of the End of the World (Libero editorial, 2021/Edições Flecha, 2023). In Brazil, we hear from writer Tatiana Nascimento in the first of her seven notes on the apocalypse or poems for the end of the world (Garupa and ksa1, 2019): “I want to write about my body/the notes of the songs of the end of time.” In Brazil, we hear from writer Tatiana Nascimento, in the first of her seven notes on the apocalypse or poems for the end of the world (Garupa and ksa1, 2019): “so listen up: we are/ your/ apocalypse/ kuír...”. The end of the world is a narrative that has been disputed by black authors from the Afro-diaspora, who take it as an image-cracks for the circulation of counter-hegemonic knowledge and aesthetics, dissident ways of being and living, enabling the oxygenation and reforestation of imaginaries. What does the end of the world offer to those for whom the apocalypse is not a threat to come, but rather a contingency of the present? How many ends of the world have the so-called subjugated peoples been subjected to since colonization to the present day? As Jota Mombaça states (2021), “if the future is to be shaped, and the present is collapse, exhausting what exists is the condition for opening the gates of possibility”. This perspective dialogues with philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva's (2019) proposal for a Black Feminist Poetics, which consists of a shift in thinking from the creative experience of Blackness, which interrupts the violence perpetrated by the logic of universal reason, based on the principle of separability. “How can we bring to an end the representation of the Ordered World, in which the separation of Subjectum and Mundus justifies the reign of violence, that from/in which racial dialectics make sense?” (SILVA, 2019, p. 97). In this sense, in this essay, we will discuss the forms that this Black Feminist Poetics can take in poems by Yuliana Ortiz and Tatiana Nascimento.

KEYWORDS:

End of the World; Black Feminist Poetics; Radical Black Thought; Diaspora; Contemporary Poetry, Latin American Poetry.