This study analyzes, through the concept of multiterritoriality, by geographer Roger Haesbaert, the diasporic journeys of the characters of Um defeito de cor (2006), an African-Brazilian novel written by Ana Maria Gonçalves. Considering the novel, which takes place in Africa and Brazil in the nineteenth-century, we will focus on the protagonist, Kehinde, in her material and symbolic mobility around African and American continents. To Haesbaert, the immanent aspect of multiterritoriality in individual lives and in different human groups has been depreciated by the "myth" of deterritorialization. Instead of a simplistic uprooting dispossession, there would be a permanent process of, a spatially discontinuous and highly complex repossession. Thus, it is through the action of moving as, on one hand, symbolic and cultural, and, on the other, political and economic dereterritorialzation that these diasporic journeys of the characters of the novel are thought.
deterritorialization; African-Brazilian novel; diaspora; Ana Maria Gonçalves