Writing as countercolonial possibility: rewritings by the multitude

Abstract

The acts of writing and theorizing literature were presented to us - if we think that the history of
Brazilian literature is marked by erasures, formation of stereotypes and repetitions of inequalities of gender, region, race and class – as acts possible only for select groups. In the opposite direction, we notice resistance and “hacking” of these inequalities, these ones as reminiscences of colonialism. We are interested here in thinking about how readings and writings are acts and countercolonial points of view indicate ways of sowing knowledge that already contradicted and still contradict coloniality and its disconnections. The writings and rewritings of the multitude interest us. To do this, we put into dialogue concepts such as counter-colonization, by Nêgo Bispo (2023) and Multitude Literature, by Luciano Justino (2015) when thinking about the works of Carolina Maria de Jesus (2014) and Geovani Martins (2018).