Abstract
In this paper, we discuss some reflections on the Brazilian publishing market, trying to understand the economic, ideological, political and historical aspects that permeate the fields of literature and book publishing in the country, particularly, the Afro-Brazilian poetry. We focus on the case of a small publishing house, Malê, specializing in the publication of Afro-Brazilian writers, and on Terra Negra (2017), by Cristiane Sobral. We pay special attention to the construction of the poem “350 metros”, approaching it as a testimonial poem, built, therefore, from the interrelations between referential and fictional elements, which seek to showcase voices of silenced black women, both in the poem and in the literary and editorial field.
Keywords:
Afro-Brazilian poetry; literature of female authorship; editorial market; testimony