Abstract
This paper aims to foster a discussion, based on the reading of the poem “De volta ao sol” by Edimilson de Almeida Pereira, about the ways in which Brazilian contemporary poetry has been included in the context of revindications and problematizations on which epistemological and aesthetic decolonizing initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean are based. Based on research findings in the fields of anthropology and history, as well as on poetry and art, we aim to verify how the poem deals with issues originating from the situations represented by the Tupinamba’s feathered capes from the 17th and 18th centuries currently exhibited in European museums. Considering the effects of the division between nature and culture, as well as its consequences in the silencing of existences, in the appropriation of objects, beings and peoples, we understand that the creative exercise of language, with its political role, can play an important part in denaturalizing conceptions, affirming diversity and fighting to reclaim memory.
Keywords:
Edimilson de Almeida Pereira; Tupinambá cape; decoloniality; nature and culture; diversity