“UMA NAÇÃO SE FAZ NA CAMA?” CORPO E SEXUALIDADE DA MULHER AFRO-BRASILEIRA

Abstract

The present study deals with the construction and formation of the Afro-Brazilian woman's body and sexuality. Initially, we seek to know the discourses of representation and formation of the body and sexuality of this woman and, then, to understand their influence on the body and on the construction of sexuality. Finally, the contribution of engaged pedagogy to the deconstruction of epistemic coloniality is evaluated. The methodological course took place through the instruments of bibliographic and documentary survey, in which the representations of body and sexuality are mapped, through academic productions on the subject, with a study of the State of the Art type, according to Romanowski and Ens (2006), followed by the analysis of the works: “Casa-Grande & Senzala” by Freyre (2006) (from a Eurocentric perspective) and “Um defeito de cor'' by Gonçalves (2020) (from an Afrocentric perspective). Iconographic sources and excerpts from newspapers and blogs were also used, which complete the plot of this study, allowing the analysis of discursive productions that were built around the Afro-Brazilian woman. The analysis is based on the studies of Cultural History in Chartier (1990, 1991, 2002), Burke (2005, 2011), Pesavento (2003, 2008) and Social Representations by Moscovici (2003), Jodelet (2001) associated with the decolonial studies of Anzaldúa (2005), Quijano (2005), Mignolo (2008), Torres (2008), Santos and Meneses (2009), Lugones (2014) and Afrocentrics from Adichie (2009), Asante (2009, 2016), Oyěwùmí (2004, 2021) and Mbembe (2014, 2018). It shows another look at the body and sexuality of Afro-Brazilian women, from perspectives that value the point of view of historically subordinated groups, contributing to expand studies with epistemologies of subversion (MACHADO, 2018) and recentering Afro-Brazilian women as protagonists. of your story.