Vozes de resistência: as identidades étnicas na poesia de autoria indígena feminina

Abstract

This paper highlights the relevance of Indigenous female authorship by showing how Indigenous identities are (re)signified in the poems made by the writers Marcia Kambeba (2018) and Eliane Potiguara (2024), who are Indigenous people. The general objective is to identify how identity practices are approached in the poems of Indigenous female authorship. This is a qualitative research of an interpretivist basis,with a bibliographic approach and based on studies from Bauman (2005), Hall (2020), Castells (2008), Dorrico (2021), Munduruku (2017), Maher (1998), among others. The research discusses the notions of identities, memories, and the Indigenous movement to highlight the importance of the history, ancestry, and cultural resistance of the Indigenous peoples, besides showing the violences suffered, especially by Indigenous women, who try to promote the valorization of their culture and traditions through literature. It was concluded that Indigenous women’s literature emerges to give voice to the Indigenous people who were silenced for centuries in an attempt of cultural, social, and political erasure. So, the identity practices are strongly present in the writing of these Indigenous female authors, who, through literature, rescue and resignify their origins, identities, histories, and ways of being and living in the world.