A representação de Zumbi e a resistência do negro brasileiro na poesia de Solano Trindade

Abstract

This reserch presents a poetic that analyses the ancestry and the valorization of the black in the diaspora, as a literary strand of resistance, enphasizing the writing of the black poet Solano Trindade, making a study from the work Cantares ao meu povo (1961). The verses created by Trindade keeps the vigor of blackness, besides reporting the Afro-Brazilian experience and sentimentality, as mentioned by Sousa (2004). Solano Trindade describes the Afro-descendants through his speech, reporting episodes of relevant characters to the black historical process in Brazil, featuring Zumbi dos Palmares, icon of the struggles and revolutions in Brazilian territory. Zumbi dos Palmares was a quilombola leader in colonial period, having congragated thousands of blacks in his refuge, Quilombo dos Palmares, offering resistence to the colonizer. The memoirs evoked in the poems are motivating examples to those who want to remain resisting to the illegitimate interventions, threatening of the full exercise of citizenship by a portion of the Afrodescendant population. Still persist in our society the racial discrimination and other forms od prejudice. Between the poetic discrimination of Solano Trindade we perceived ideas that points for the questionamento of the constituded power against the devaluation of the black and its consequente impoverishment. To Machado (2009), Solano Trindades´s speech is a means of restauration, a way of resistance that constitutes an ancestral dialogue between the blacks of ―yesterday‖ and those who wish to survive and persevere in its personal aspirations and culture of nowadays, without leaving aside the principles carried out by its ancestors. We use the theoretical assumption of Duarte (2004, 2011, 2016), Ferreira (2006), Paz (1982), Said (2011), Souza (2004), Bernd (1988, 1992, 2011) among other theorics in which we rely ro the critical deepening of the research.