CRITICAL THEORIZATION, ESCREVIVÊNCIA AND RESISTANT EPISTEMOLOGY

This article aims to engage in debates on contemporary social theories, particularly critical theories, emphasizing theoretical decentralization and the inclusion of subaltern voices. It adopts postcolonial critique and intersectionality to propose, following Collins (2022), a dialogical engagement capable of formulating a resistant knowledge project while critically addressing the challenges of different theoretical traditions. In this process, it highlights experience and testimonial authority as legitimate epistemic producers. To support this argument, the article draws on escrevivências (Evaristo, 2005) by Black women authors who, far from abandoning self-reflexivity, generate counter-discourses that reshape the world through other epistemic subjects, unveiling and destabilizing the difference/subalternity structure that underpins hegemonic modernity. These discourses combine various heuristic resources that resist epistemicide, provoke new subjectivation processes, expand interpretive communities within academia, and offer new possibilities for critical thought.

Postcolonial critique; Subalternity; Intersectionality; Writerliness/escrevivência; Testimonial authority