The indigenous poetics as resistance: for an opening on contemporary brazilian literature

Abstract

In the last 500 years, the indigenous peoples are r(existing) in their plurality. Against the State’s unifying war, the opening to the multiple. From one side of this war, imposing a unique language, is the fatherland and its “father tongue”; from the other, the mother tongue of plural peoples, an earth tongue, a tongue with which one have a relation of affect, and not charge; of belonging, and not property; of care, and not commodity. However, it is not just about preserve the mother tongue, the resistance happens in the becoming minority of the major language. A becoming that deviates the major language of its homogenizer proposes, of its violence of exclusion. The agency of Native literature as a rupture in our cultural history, calling our ethnocentrism and anthropocentrism into question, openness of our closed world to other worlds.