Comunidade and community: poetry and struggle in the performative practices of afro-descendant women poets from São Paulo’s peripheries

Abstract

This article aims to explore the emergence of Brazilian afro-descendant women poets within the literary landscape of São Paulo’s peripheries. In particular, it will analyse the experience of saraus as spaces of artistic experimentation, where political and feminist struggles have now gained a central role. Finally, it will focus on two key aspects stemming from the agency of these subjectivities within the literary field: firstly, the performativity of Black female bodies, conceived as a bridge to ancestral inheritance, and secondly, the use of social media to promote their works and events, an unusual practice in relation to traditional publishing circuits, embodying a decolonial approach at both political and urban levels.