Abstract

CASTRO, Ana Aires e. The construction of a decolonial feminine identity in Kilêlê: A Dança Sagrada do Falcão, by Olinda Beja. Faces de Eva. Estudos sobre a Mulher [online]. 2023, n.50, pp.115-133.  Epub Feb 21, 2024. ISSN 0874-6885.  https://doi.org/10.34619/0k0a-uqbi.

Abstract: This article aims to explore the process of identity development in the poetry book Kilêlê: A Dança Sagrada do Falcão (2021), from Santomean author Olinda Beja. For that purpose, we will highlight material elements such as the body, particularly the feminine body, as it is the main vehicle from which it would be danced kilêlê, an extinct traditional dance from São Tomé and Príncipe. Anchored in a theoretical panorama composed of Gender and Feminist Studies (Butler, 2017; Lugones, 2008; Vergès, 2023), we will try to situate an identity that, in Olinda Beja’s poems, assumes to be both decolonial and intersectional (Silva, 2018).

Keywords : body; gender; intersectionality; identity; decolonial feminism.

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