O projeto decolonial estético de Exu: encruzilhando a literatura de Cidinha da Silva, o feminismo de María Lugones e a pedagogia de Luiz Rufino

Abstract

This article proposes a reading of the short story Lua cheia, by the brazilian writer Cidinha da Silva, inscribed in the book Um exu em Nova York, published in 2018, by Pallas Editora, as a text that evokes and reflects the decolonial perspective from the questioning and the destabilization of passivity and docility as inherent characteristics of the female body, breaking with the gender paradigm imposed by coloniality. For this purpose, an attempt is made to look at the literary narrative from fundamental intellectuals to decolonial epistemology, having as main theoretical support the approaches of the argentine sociologist María Lugones in Coloniality and Gender (2008) and in Towards a Decolonial Feminism (2014), and by brazilian pedagogue Luiz Rufino in Pedagogia das Encruzilhadas (2019). With this work, we believe that, by shedding light on issues related to contemporary aesthetics, it will be possible to instigate movements for the decolonization of beings and knowledge, above all, related to the construction of gender in societies that, like Brazil, were historically colonized and are in search of new directions with a view to transformation.