Quilombismo and Afrocentricity: the black-religious presence in the loving lyric of Oswaldo Montenegro

• Autor(a) principal: de Souza Filgueira, André Luiz
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre as Américas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/repam/article/view/33875
• topic: Texto poético, afro-brasileiro, quilombismo e afrocentricidade.; Poetic text, Afro-Brazilian, quilombism and Afrocentricity; Poética, texto afrobrasileño, quilombismo y afrocentrismo

This article takes the lyric of the songwriter Oswaldo Montenegro as an instrument of approach. What is wanted is to identify the categories Quilombismo and Afrocentricity, which take the Afro-Brazilian culture as a worldview, treated by the black thinker Abdias Nascimento, in the verses of the songs. Tracking similarities and differences between Montenegro's poetic text and these concepts, through the presence of Afro-religious symbology, is the focus of this study. To fulfill it, the black-diasporic phenomenological method is used, which helps in the analysis of mythopoetic images of the deities of the pantheon of African origin. The conclusion reached by this study is: although the carioca songwriter projects a positive representation of the community, through songs that deal with the black-religious imaginary, this intention is partially achieved when placed in perspective compared with the categories afrocentricity and Quilombismo. An approximation of Afrocentricity can be noticed by the thematization of the deities of the Dark Continent. On the other hand, there is a distancing from quilombism, due to the lack of positive representations of the black community and its feminine, and an update of the myth of racial democracy operationalized by the lyrical self.