Respiro fora da(s) linha(s): aproximações poéticas às diásporas africanas no Brasil e Alemanha

Abstract

Through a journey accross artistic productions, covering roughly the period from the 1970s to 2021/2022, within the African Diaspora in Germany and Brazil, this dissertation aims to bring closer and memorialize poetics of Relation, in Glissantian terms (1990), which – throughout this document – take on dimensions modes of making (and) living. The backbone of this dissertation/archive is the encountours and meanings derived from and with written and non-verbal, sung and silenced, disappeared and translated texts. Organized into four acts the dissertation provides a multifaceted and multimodal experience of African diasporic poetics, allowing for a non-linear reading that emphasizes fluidity and movement in approaching the theme. The first two acts, “DANÇAR / TANZEN” and “ESCUTAR / ZUHÖREN,” focus on literary and political constelations across these countries. They touch upon connected poetics, situational dissonances, and convergence within contemporary African diasporic political movements, addressing literary productions and their respective translations. The third act, “ENCONTRAR / BEGEGNEN,” analyzes the forms and political projects of the volume Farbe bekennen (1986), a collective work that intertwines different textual genres into a single book. The act also delves into the political conditions that shaped its creation and publication, tracing its continuities in the German context and beyond. This analysis is extended to the examination of other Black German works that follow in the tradition of Farbe bekennen. “CONTINUAR / WEITERMACHEN,” the fourth and final act focuses on the author-researcher's experience during the research fellowship in Berlin, exploring encounters and lived experiences, i.e., poetics of Relation in African (and) diasporic communities, with artists, artistic projects and imaginative experiences in and beyond the German context. Additionally, this section continues the dialogue with anthologies of African diasporic texts in Germany, covering the period from 1992 to 2022. Throughout the thesis, poems, prefaces, event flyers, and exhibitions, along with personal archive material are presented in translation and in Relation, serving as an archive and reliquary. A list of translated authors is provided at the end of this thesis.