Dengo as an affective production of Good Living: literary practices, narratives and black sapatonas poetics

Abstract

This work is the result of one of the essays produced for the thesis Nós: Affections and Literature, defended in 2021. In it, I produced a literary critique that contributes in a sensitive and attentive way to the diverse and complex dimensions that involve black literary productions and sexual and gender dissidences, with the aim of capturing how the uses of affections - to fear, to anger, to love, to eroticism and to dengo - are made in the literary productions analyzed. In this essay, therefore, we navigate through to dengo as an affection that produces Good Living among black sapatonas. Through literary texts by black Brazilian writers, who produced poetics and narratives implicated in sexual and gender dissidences, ranging from Luedji Luna music video, as an epigraph through a QR Code, which sets the tone for the reading; through literary texts by Cidinha da Silva, tatiana nascimento, Conceição Evaristo and Kati Souto; to the poetic theory produced by Audre Lorde and Denise Ferreira da Silva, I weave together the modes of affection, (self)care, loving practices and freedom, which are constructed through narratives and poetics by black corporealities and sexual and gender dissidences whose colonial project and desire in this anti-black world is death. However, dengo, the transatlantic black affection par excellence, runs through our existences and leads us to the waters of life. This test takes us, therefore, on a journey through the affection of dengo, whose power is captured in the flow of narratives of self-determination, of care among sapatonas in the afrodiaspora, producer of good life, of the radical action of (self)naming, of corporealities unsubmissive and the beauty that is the refoundation of narratives about us.