Banca de DEFESA: ISABELA LAPA SILVA

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STUDENT : ISABELA LAPA SILVA
DATE: 24/08/2022
TIME: 08:30
LOCAL: Virtual (google meet)
TITLE:

Roots, routes, and hair: an analysis of Esse Cabelo, by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

KEY WORDS:

Memories; Spaces; Coloniality; hybridism; Diasporic identity.

PAGES: 190
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

In the book Esse cabelo, by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, the narrator Mila organizes her curly hair biography, revisiting memories of hers and her relatives. Luso-Angolan woman born in an interracial family with multiple nationalities, she lives the in-betweenness of diasporic identity; thus, her writing follows the process of understanding herself as a black woman in Portuguese society. Therefore, among the narrative, we can perceive a vast history of a geopolitical relationship between two continents: Europe and Africa. From this, the present work aims to discuss the protagonist's relationship with the spaces where she lived, in the surrounding Lisboa — sites that reveal domestic and collective experiences crossed by social, political, and historical questions. Besides, it seeks to analyze the hybridism that permeates the novel, which walks between the fictional and the essayist. Associating the novel's form, its polysemic language, and what the book approaches, the research aims to highlight the construction of a dense and actual literary work. In this discussion, we bounce Mila's singular point of view about the Lisboa she has grown and the coloniality that persists, setting social asymmetries reflected in the spaces and the ways of living them. In this sense, the narrator rescues the beauty salon's routes — traumatic memories — exposing the colonial mentality over different appearances, followed by racism and sexism, that anchors a beauty and femininity standard spread at that time. All these aspects emerge in Mila's intimate reflections and digressions, which lean towards the essayist. Some of the theoretical references used in this study are Stuart Hall (2013), Grada Kilomba (2019), Joana Henriques Gorjão (2016), Sheila Khan (2015), João Barrento (2010), Maurice Halbwachs (2016), among others. Based on the discussions proposed by these theorists, we analyze how the character repositioned herself through the memories and how she changed the perceptions of herself through this process. Between spaces and times, Mila claims the right to narrate her hair biography; with that, she creates a map from your remembrances. So she can recognize herself in her family and draw a map of herself by accessing her roots, reconnecting with a part of hers mutilated by the environment where she grew up.

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