Abstract
Based on an analysis of contemporary Indigenous Brazilian literature, we will discuss the centrality of the minorities’ standpoint of speech in terms of criticism, recognition and resistance. We will highlight the interconnection and interdependence between epistemology and politics that converge and appear directly in the minority subject/group. Its anthropological singularity and condition of marginalization, exclusion and violence once publicized politically and culturally, imply the denaturalization and politicization of society, pluralizing histories, experiences, subjects, practices and values. Therefore, in the minority subject/group converges the very historical-political process of formation of society, with its potentialities and contradictions. It is here that the minorities’ aesthetical-literary voice praxis acquires full poignancy and, by means of the paradigmatic openness that art affords, it leads to a perspective of decolonization of culture and de-catechization of mind that generate increasing social criticism and intensified political reflexivity.
Keywords:
Decoloniality; Standpoint of Speech; Minorities; Indigenous; Voice-Praxis