Active silence

the strength and resistance of indigenous poetry

Abstract

This work proposes a critical-analytical reading of the poem “Silêncio guerreiro”, by Márcia Wayna Kambeba. The analysis that will be undertaken aims to understand active silence as a behaviour of resistance and strength. In this work, it is also discussed the importance of contemporary indigenous poetry and the ways in which a people can re-exist and value their ancestry. Methodologically, it is a qualitative, bibliographic and interpretive work. As a theoretical foundation, we used the following authors: Almeida (2008), Corbin (2021), Grün (2012), Kambeba (2018a, 2018b, 2020, 2023), Munduruku (2008, 2016), Orlandi (1990, 2007, 2020), Pollak (1989), Santos (2009), Schneider (2018) and Spivak (2010), Tfouni (2008), and Testa and Albuquerque (2021). Some results indicate that active silence does not mean becoming silent or not stop speaking, listening and giving meaning to a context of consciousness, struggle and reexistence and, moreover, that ancestral silence is intentional, it is active.