Poetry from the Ruins: The Retaking of Land and the Word-Soul

• Autor(a) principal: Aquino, Valdineia Jorge
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Mattos Johnson, Felipe
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/59121
• topic: Land Retaking; Ogá pysy; Tekoha; Guarani kaiowá; Poetry

The following texts arise from an ongoing war conducted by the Brazilian State against the Guarani Kaiowá people in state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Since 2020, there has been an intensification of distinct violations related to the misappropriation of Guarani Kaiowá body-territories. The first poem, ‘Ogá Pysy’, focuses on the arson attacks committed by Pentecostal churches against the sacred houses where many relevant socio-cosmological practices of the Guarani Kaiowá people take place. The second poem, ‘Where to Die’, reflects the contradictions related to the anti-colonial action of retaking ancestral territory, conducted by the Guarani Kaiowá people since the 1970s. Thus, the following poems reflect insurrection and contemporary forms of Indigenous autonomy and struggle facing centuries of capitalist and colonial enterprise. The experience of active solidarity and direct participation by the authors on the daily Guarani Kaiowá uprisings intend to express collective meanings through an engaged literary and cosmopolitical writing.