A literatura pensante de Calila das Mercês: corpos/corpus e escritas da terra

Abstract

In this text, we critically reflect on contemporary literary productions and, in particular, examine the thinking literature of Calila das Mercês in Planta oração. We also problematize the notions of body, writing, and territoriality through the theoretical lenses of Conceição Evaristo, Evando Nascimento, and Jacques Derrida. With an emphasis on the writings of Black and subalternized women, we argue that literary works such as Calila’s—operating at the intersections of literature, philosophy, (auto)biography, and spirituality—generate fissures both in Western canonical norms and in the rigidity of textual and sexual genres, causing them to overflow as literary excess or as escrevivências pensantes [thinking writing-livings] that think themselves and make one think.