Escrituras indígenas de autoria de mulheres Potiguara (Brasil) e Mapuche (Chile)

In this dissertation I propose a study in the field of resistence literature on the writings written by the women from the Potiguara (Brazil) and Mapuche (Chile) native peoples. For this purpose, this research is structured as a great tessitura formed by threads and theoreticalmethodological lines whereby the basic epistemologies support, initially, on the process of brushing history against grain, thereby, tracing the (re)made literary plot made by indigenous women thread by thread. A priori, I realize that the literatures of indigenous authorship are resistence literatures and that the indigenous literary territory-body in connection with nature is done through words in defense, as well as it remains firm in its purpose and own ideologies, even with all the impositions and subjugations engendered by the hegemonic discourse perpetuazed by the colonizer. It’s also important to emphasize that the resistence literature is a field of literary theory that studies the literatures that emerge in contexts of authoritarianism, state of exception, barbaric situation, likewise in trauma situtations, or, even, thematize such psychologycal and socio-historical conditions. Therefore, this literature sub-area configures itself as a great potential to existence through resistence, thus forming a poetry rupture of “reexistence”. Seen in these terms, I consider that the Potiguara and Mapuche women’s writings are developed by words that transcend the resistence both gender and ethnic identity. This perspective is significant on the literary corpus of this research, and enables that the scope of the dissertation is done through the expression of the fractured body of the indigenous woman, which, consequently, in resistence, it tenses through the literary production, the memory, ancestry, gender issues, ethnic identity and subjective and collective relationships with the colonial trauma. From this point of view, the literary corpora of this research is composed of the texts by the Potiguara writers: Eliane Potiguara, Graça Graúna ...