Racialized senses of the black body and afro-diasporic artistic productions

Abstract

The reconstruction of the experience of corporeality that was fragmented during the diaspora is a strategy for subverting the ways of life imposed by coloniality. From this perspective, the body and the voice become ways of registering knowledge that escapes colonization, based on gingas, gestures and artistic cultural performances. We started by analyzing the production of meaning of the black body in our culture and chose to analyze works by black artists as artistic-decolonial strategies, through decolonial authors and the psychoanalytic field. We concluded that artistic and performative expressions constitute an important path to the construction of authentic and disalienated narratives about black people, a process that also involves the resignification of the body itself and its blackened power.