"... Even if they pull our teeth and tongue.": the sacred space of speech in the literature of Eliane Potiguara

Abstract

It discusses the theme of ancestry in the narratives of the author Eliane Potiguara, relating with the defense of a politics of existence thus highlighting the ritualized aspect of this literature that develops in the tenuous border between orality and writing. It starts from the writing of Eliane Potiguara to point out the conquest of a space that has been established as a practice permanently articulated in networks of indigenous knowledge such as GRUMIN, the Group of Indigenous Women-Education that emerged in the 80's, constituting as an objective political resistance. It is noteworthy how much the social and ethical character of the indigenous literature can stimulate us to make approximations with the Field of Performance Studies, through the investigation of Diana Taylor on Cultural Memory in the Americas. The innovation aspect of this literary genre is articulated with the indigenous movement, with the singularity of being affirmed as a creation that reshapes the political aspects of prose, poetry, educational booklets, drawing and testimonial literature, where the ancestry grounds the political action.