Becoming-ground in Jota Mombaça’s visionary fiction literature

Abstract

We start from the contested territory of contemporary Brazilian literature (Dalcastagnè, 2012), characterized by a historical erasure of women writers, mainly black women, to address an aggravating factor in these discussions: the invisibility of trans, travestis and non-binary writers in contemporary Brazilian literature. Faced with this problem, our objective is to map the becoming-earth in the visionary fiction literature of Jota Mombaça (2021). And, to this end, we have divided this article into three moments. In the first, we present the concept “visionary fiction”, by writer Walidah Imarisha (2016). In the second, we present the concept “ordered world”, by writer Denise Ferreira da Silva (2019). And in the third moment, we analyze the movement of transition to the ground, by the writer Jota Mombaça, based on two chapters of the book They won’t kill us now (Mombaça, 2021). This analysis is intertwined with the concept of “becoming”, in the text Literature and Life (Deleuze, 1997). Based on these discussions, our hypothesis is that Jota Mombaça’s visionary fiction literature announces to minorities that a molecular revolution will come, with a view to the decolonization of the colonial, capitalist and neoliberal world, the end of the world as we know it.

Keywords:
visionary fiction; Brazilian literature; minority; becoming