Voice, orality and academic literacy in the light of indigenous presence in Brazilian universities (original) (raw)

2023, Decolonial Subversions Special Issue

When writing this paper, I had as a main objective to bring to light the importance of exercising language in a free, poetic and radical way, understanding such an exercise as absolutely necessary to challenge dominant discourses and practices. In this sense, writing in any of the discourse genres-and maybe mostly in the academic genre, where we have to struggle and fight inside the colonizer's territory-can be seen as an ability that needs a lot of exercise out of the combat arena and before entering it. Our language needs to be strong; it needs to acquire a force of language that only poetic and free exercise can provide. This paper presents results of ten-year research involving three indigenous students at the Federal University of São Carlos. In what concerns theory, it highlights the necessary interaction between Poetics, Ethics and Politics as the main issue we must take into consideration when decolonization is at stake. My research highlights that there is a role for orality as well as voice in the academy. Pausapé, ambúri yepé maã yamaité arama: ti aikué yepé tetama ntu upé yepé nheenga. Tiramé yepé nheenga ntu yepé tetama supé. Nheenga ramé muíri amu nheenga ita uiku. Yepe tetama uriku muiri nheenga nhaãsé yepé nheenga uiku amu nheenga kuara upe. Panhe kuri tetama nheenga itá umuyereu arama.

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