Poética das manas: mulheres negras, irmandade feminina e relações de trabalho na poesia de Noémia de Sousa

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze how the black female poetic self in Noémia de Sousa formalizes labor relations and what specificities involve the writing of black women. Initially, a contextualization of the colonial period in Mozambique is made to demonstrate how this system was structured based on forced labor and what the consequences of labor exploitation were in the lives of the colonized population, especially black women. In the sequence, we discuss specificities involving the production of African women writers with emphasis on the work of Noémia de Sousa, in which the presence of the labor theme is undeniable. The third chapter condenses the analysis of the poems of the author, in which two perspectives of formalization of the denunciation of labor relations are found. The first one manifests a collective look on the workers built from three poetic procedures. The second shows that it is in the dialogue with black female workers that the poetics acquires a particular characteristic: the feminine look around the feminine, building a "poetics of the sisters" based on the feeling of the black feminine sisterhood.