FEMALE BLACK AUTHORSHIP, VERBO-VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS IN THE POETRY OF CELESTE BASTOS: RUPTURES OF THE LITERARY READER

Abstract

The Bahian literary scene has been starred by a set of texts, performances and authorships by black writers who write and publish independently, and who, however, face barriers to circulation and visibility. Celeste Bastos's poetic writing, published in the collection Profundanças: literary and photographic anthology (2014), is representative of the authors' exercises of freedom and desilencing. We compare Celeste Bastos' writing and self-representation, reflecting on the dialogue between poems and photographic images published in the e-book. The reading is based on the tensions of black female authorship with Miriam Alves, Ana Rita Santiago and Conceição Evaristo, living up to the interface between literature and photography, specifically the approach to “photoliterary” for Juliana Estanislau de Ataíde Mantovani (2019). Such discussions involve debating the power/knowledge relations that forge interdictions, freedom exercises and desilencing in the literary scene with Audre Lorde (2019) and (FOUCAULT, 1995; 2004). The article aims to impact theoretical approaches on the formation of literary readers.