Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ISABELA LAPA SILVA

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STUDENT : ISABELA LAPA SILVA
DATE: 09/12/2021
LOCAL: Virtual
TITLE:

A map in Mila's hair: an analysis of Esse Cabelo, by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

KEY WORDS:

Memories; Spaces; Coloniality; Hybrid.

PAGES: 74
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

In the book Esse cabelo, by Portuguese-Angolan writer Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, the narrator Mila organizes her hair biography, revisiting her childhood memories and relatives histories. Among the narrative, we can perceive a vast history about a geopolitical relationship between two continents, Europe and Africa. From this, the present work aims to discuss the protagonist-narrator relation with the species she lives in, around Lisboa, considering the book's writing — a hybrid, between the essay and the novel. Therefore, colonial and imperial Portuguese past crosses these city experiences lived by Mila and her relatives. Into this discussion, the goal is to evidence the singular point of view of the narrator about this city where she lived and grew up, as well the coloniality thar persists, setting social asymmetries which reflects the spaces and the ways of lives it. The novel proposes tolivesMila's capillary biography, but it opens itself to other histories. In this sense, the narrator rescues the saloons' routes — traumatic memories — exposing the perpetuation of the colonial mentality under various shapes, for example, the racism and the sexism from the beauty and femininity standards spread by the time. All of this appears woven with intimate reflections and digressions, which inclines to essay diction. To fundament this study, we will use the works of Stuart Hall (2013), Grada Kilomba (2019), Said (2001), Sheila Khan (2015), João Barrento (2010), among others. Based on the discussions proposed by these theorists, we will analyze how the character repositioned herself through the memories that questioned her, changing her perception. In the attempt to claim this right to narrate her hair's biography, Mila recreates a map of the places she lived, of the beauty spaces she visited, combining past and present into the writing. So, there is an overlapping of maps. The geography map combines with a map of Mila's self, as a part of a process that the narrator accesses her roots, her Angolan origins, and gets in touch with a mutilated part of hers by the place she lives.

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