South gnoseologies: power-to know-to be in Ponciá Vicêncio

Abstract

It presents the concept of gnoseologias of the South while varied and diffuse set of alternative knowledge in order to know and that is strength of knowledge/subalternizeds powers in relation to knowledge/hegemonic powers eurocentric. In the broader framework of cultural representations related approaches, the concept here is problematic from the analysis of the novel Ponciá Vicêncio (2003), Conceição Evaristo, reflecting on the processes of identity and fracture resistance present in the trajectories of the the characters, who claim positively right descendant, denouncing imaginary social ills arising from the violent processes of colonization and slavery lived in the country. In the context of cultural studies and in conjunction with critical perspectives of post-colonial studies, one can recognize that these knowledges underlings are placed "out of Commission", without locus of social importance and, therefore, rendered invisible. The analytical path here developed this novel of Evaristo, allows the unveiling of a geocritic to ideologizing power epistemologies colonizer, enabling discussions directed the potential of South gnoseologias in the space of the Afro-brazilian literacy production.