Escritas de mulheres quilombolas: palavras germinantes em cartas mocambeiras, redigidas por lideranças femininas do Quilombo da Mocambo, Porto Alegre (RS).

Abstract

This dissertation for an Academic Master's Degree in Education aims to analyze the emerging words in the writing of the female leaders of the QUILOMBO da MOCAMBO, a community in the central area of Porto Alegre/RS. The study problematizes the way in which these women, of different ages, drive the uses and meanings of words that are present in the community's register, namely: MOCAMBO and Surrounding Area. It seeks to understand, from the chosen words, how the daily struggles in different spaces are affected by the knowledge and practices germinated in their territory and, according to Antônio Bispo dos Santos/Nego Bispo (2015, 2022), named as organic knowledge. The methodology adopts techniques created for the research and it has a qualitative and inventive character, selecting the Mocambeira letters and the conversation circle as central strategies, followed by the documentary analysis of the Foundation Act and Self-Declaration Act of the QUILOMBO. The theoretical choices for the analytical production were based on the singularities present in the writing of quilombola women, breaking with academic writing-centrism, according to Grosfoguel (2016), valuing the quilombola identity, according to Abdias Nascimento (2018), Beatriz Nascimento (2018, 2021) and the becoming quilombola, according to Mariléa de Almeida (2022). In the three women participating in the research, common elements are very perceptive, namely: communitarianism, memory and ancestry. The aforementioned elements were mobilized in different singular expressions, such as affection, assertiveness and learning, shared in the QUILOMBO and present in different moments of their daily lives, including in these writings. Finally, it is worth highlighting that, despite their different ages and ways of being, all the leaders were guided by the link of ancestry cultivated in the invisible thread of memory that unites each of them.