The Black-Brazilian Literature as a confluence between Bruno de Menezes and RAP-PA

Abstract

Based on the notes of Paulo Nunes and Vânia Costa (2018), which highlight rap from brazilian state Pará (Rap-PA) as one of the cultural manifestations that continue the diaspora-African valorization established by the group of intellectuals Academia do Peixe Frito (APF) of the Pará, and the observation of intellectual Zélia Amador de Deus about the relevance of addressing the black population of the Amazon, still invisible (Monteiro, 2020), this article aims to bring together the APF, with Bruno de Menezes as its representative, and Rap-PA, represented by Shaira Mana Josy and Moraes MV, to verify whether the fight against racism, through Black-brazilian Literature (Cuti, 2010), is a connection between these two manifestations of different times. The theoretical basis for the analysis is also constituted by Lélia Gonzalez (2020, 1988), Joice Berth (2019) and Kabengele Munanga (2019). The three poets emanate a discourse claiming black identity through the collective lyric self, exalting black people through affection, and expressing blackness by reconstructing identity positively. Thus, they transform literature into an instrument of attack on the ideology of whiteness and racist strategies, which connects the APF and Rap-PA.