Banca de DEFESA: DANIELLE TUDES PEREIRA SILVA

Contributions of Black Literature in the construction of Decolonial Pedagogies

Female Black Authorship Literature Decolonial Option Clerkships Decolonial Pedagogy 

This thesis aims to debate the potentialities of Literature of Black Female Authorship in the construction of 

a Decolonial Pedagogy, that is, ways of teaching and learning that break with coloniality. The Law of Directives 

and Bases of Education establishes the field of Literature, as well as Arts and History, as preferred for the 

approach to Afro-Brazilian History and Culture. However, Literature, as an artistic activity that produces 

meanings for existence, disobeys disciplinary restrictions and can offer elements that are transgressive for 

the realization of an anti-racist education. We adopted the Decolonial Option as a theoretical basis, in other 

words, as a tool for understanding the permanence of the colonial ethos in contemporary times and, 

consequently, in Literature. The present research focuses on two authors: Carolina Maria de Jesus and 

Conceição Evaristo, in order to relate the epistemological power of their writings, which also explain the 

female protagonism. For this, we adopted concepts formulated by theoreticians and theoreticians from the 

Modernity / Coloniality (MC) group articulated with other thinkers and critical thinkers. Finally, we propose 

to discuss the possibilities of decolonizing education based on the destabilizing images contained in the 

literature on screen in dialogue with the concept of Decolonial Pedagogies.

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