Expanding access to Afro-Brazilian literature is a “no return path”, in the opinion of the founder and president of Casa Poéticas Negras, Angela Damasceno.
Jabuti, for example, honored the writer, philosopher and anti-racism activist, Sueli Carneiro, and, for the first time in Flip, there was a tribute to a black woman, Maria Firmina dos Reis.
She is considered the first black novelist in Brazil.
THE CNN Radio on CNN No Plural, Angela stated that she believes that “we are highlighting long-term work.”
“Thanks to public policies and the black movement, we are managing to gain access when these books reach the school base”, he added.
In her assessment, this “will bring positive results for readers and writers.”
Participation in major events, such as Flip, allows “access to works by black writers who have been producing for a long time.”
“The public also began to be interested, to visualize this reading that had been silenced for a long time”, he added.
Angela points out that the work at the base is important, even in schools.
“This is the role of the book, to amplify voices, as our writers write about everything, not just about pain, with Afro-futurism, fiction, romance, you have to have that access, it makes a lot of difference.”
Positive representation, for the specialist, is capable of breaking structural racism.
Source: CNN Brasil
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