Escritas insubmissas: indisciplinando a História com Hortense Spillers e Saidiya Hartman

Allan Kardec Pereira

doi:10.15848/hh.v14i36.1719

Authors

Allan Kardec Pereira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2283-4826

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15848/hh.v14i36.1719

Keywords:

Uncoventional history, Historiographical culture, Historical understanding

Abstract

This text aims to demonstrate, in two moments, the undisciplinary potential of what we will term as unsubmissive writings of history. Initially, it will focus on Hortense Spillers’ quest for a “new grammar,” capable of redefining the stereotypes underlying current thoughts and writings about Black people. Then, the analysis will be centered on Saidiya Hartman’s concept of “critical fabulation,” which is both a theoretical alternative to bridge or negotiate gaps in the archive about slavery and an undisciplined reflection on the work of the historian. However, before approaching these concepts, we will explain how these unsubmissive writings of history are part of a Black radical tradition that has risen against Western epistemic disciplining since the end of the 19th century. This analysis will show that theoretical challenges have always been deeply connected with the political and social demands of the radical protests against anti-Black violence in the United States. Based on the considerations of Spillers and Hartman, this text deems indiscipline as a possible radical purpose in an anti-Black world.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Allan Kardec Pereira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Allan K. Pereira é doutorando em História pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) e professor substitudo do curso de História da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB). É membro do GT de Teoria e História da Historiografia da UFRGS. Pesquisa temas relacionados ao racismo antinegritude, Afro-Pessimismo e o Black Lives Matter.

References

ALEXANDER, Elizabeth. “Can you be BLACK and look at this?”: Reading the Rodney King Video(s). Public Culture, New York, v. 7, n. 1, p. 77–94, 1994. Disponível em:

https://cutt.ly/6ffM7y7. Acesso em: 23 jul. 2020.

AZOULAY, Ariella. Potential History: Thinking through Violence. Critical Inquiry, Chicago, v. 39, n. 3, p. 548-574, 2003. Disponível em: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/670045. Acesso em: 22 jun. 2020.

BILGE, Sirma. The fungibility of intersectionality: na Afropessimist Reading. Ethnic and Racial Studies, Surrey, v. 43, n. 13, p. 2298-2326, 2020. Disponível em:

https://cutt.ly/wff90K3. Acesso em: 20 ago. 2020.

BLASSINGAME, John. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford UP, 1972.

BRITISH COUNCIL. O ensino de inglês na educação pública brasileira: elaborado com exclusividade para o British Council pelo Instituto de Pesquisas Plano CDE. São Paulo, SP: British Council Brasil, 2015. Disponível em: https://www.britishcouncil.org.br/sites/default/files/final-publicacao_politicaspublicasingles-compressed.pdf. Acesso: 02 jun. 2021.

duCILLE, Ann. The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Chicago, v. 19, n. 3, p. 591–629, 1994. Disponível em: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3174771.

Acesso em: 7 jul. 2020.

FANON, Frantz. Os Condenados da Terra. Tradução: José Laurênio de Melo. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1968.

FERREIRA da SILVA, Denise; LEEB, Susanne; STAKEMEIER, Kerstion. Um fim para ‘este’ mundo: entrevista de Denise Ferreira da Silva na revista Texte Zur Knust. Revista DR, [s. l.], v. 5, 2020. Disponível em: https://cutt.ly/Nff0ER6. Acesso em: 15 ago. 2020.

FERREIRA da SILVA, Denise. Ninguém: direito, racialidade e violência. Meritum, Belo Horizonte, v. 9, n.1, p. 67-117, 2014.

FERREIRA da SILVA, Denise. Para uma Poética Negra Feminista: A questão da Negridade para o (fim do) mundo. In: FERREIRA da SILVA, Denise. A Divida Impagável. São Paulo: Oficina de Imaginação Política e Living Commons, 2019. p. 85-121.

FERREIRA da SILVA, Denise. Toward a Global Idea of Race, Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

GILMORE, Ruth Wilson. Golgen Gulag: prison, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007.

GLISSANT, Édouard. Caribbean Discourse. Tradução de J. Michael Dash. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992.

GLISSANT, Édouard. The Poetics of Relation. Tradução de Betsy Wing. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1997.

GORDON, Lewis. Decadencia disciplinaria: Pensamiento vivo em tiempos difíciles. Tradução de Marina Anatolievna Dekaldieva; Dana Keen-Morales. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2013.

HARTMAN, Saidiya; WILDERSON III, Frank B. The Position of Unthought.

Qui Parle, Durham, v. 3, n. 2, p. 183-201, 2003. Disponível em: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20686156. Acesso em: 1 jul. 2020.

HARTMAN, Saidiya. Intimate History, Radical Narrative. Black Perspectives, 22, maio, 2020. Disponível em: https://www.aaihs.org/intimate-history-radical-narrative/.

Acesso em: 23 maio 2020.

HARTMAN, Saidiya. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.

HARTMAN, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

HARTMAN, Saidiya. Under the Blacklight – Storytelling While Black and Female: Conjuring Beatiful Experiments. Youtube, 2020. Disponível em: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGS5aP5Vi7g. Acesso em: 03 ago. 2020.

HARTMAN, Saidiya. Venus in Two Acts. Small Axe, Durham, v. 12, n. 2, p. 1-14, 2008. Disponível em: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/241115. Acesso em: 25 jun. 2020.

HULL, Gloria; BELL-SCOTT, Patricia; SMITH, Barbara, eds. All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave. New York: Feminist Press, 1982.

LORDE, Audre. Irmã Outsider: Ensaios e Conferências. Tradução: Sthepanie Borges. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica Editora, 2019.

LORDE, Audre. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.

MACHARIA, Keguro. Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora.

New York: NYU Press, 2019.

MALERBA, Jurandir. Os historiadores e seus públicos: desafios ao conhecimento histórico na era digital. Revista Brasileira de História, São Paulo, v. 37, n. 74, p. 135-154, 2017.

MARABLE, Manning. Black studies and the racial mountain. Souls, New York, v. 2, n. 3, p. 17-36, 2000. Disponível em: https://cutt.ly/CffBvgH. Acesso em: 14 jul. 2020.

MCKITTRICK, Katherine. Mathematics Black Life. The Black Scholar, San Francisco, v. 44, n. 2, p. 16-28, 2014. Disponível em: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5816/blackscholar.44.2.0016. Acesso em: 15 jun 2020.

MELAMED, Jodi. Represent and Destroy: rationalizing violence in the new racial capitalismo. Minneapolis/London: University Minnesota Press, 2011.

MOMBAÇA, Jota. A Plantação Cognitiva. Arte e descolonização: MASP Afterall, São Paulo, v. 3, p. 1-11, 2020. Disponível em: https://cutt.ly/2ff1NDx. Acesso em: 12 ago. 2020.

MORRISON, Toni. Toni Morrison Nobel Lecture. The Nobel Prize, 7, dez., 1993. Disponível em: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/lecture/. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2020.

MUHAMMAD, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.

RANGEL. Marcelo de Mello. A urgência do giro ético-político: o giro ético político na teoria da história e na história da historiografia. Ponta de Lança, São Cristóvão, v. 13, p. 27-46, 2019.

RAWICK, George P. From Sundown to Sunup: the Making of the Black Community. Westport: Greenwood Pub., 1972.

RODRIGUEZ, Dylan. Forced Passages: imprisioned radical intellectuals and the U.S. prison regime. Minneapolis/London: University Minnesota Press, 2006.

SCHWARCZ, Lilian Moritz. Filme de Beyoncé erra ao glamorizar negritude com estampa de oncinha. Folha de São Paulo. 2 ago. 2020. Disponível em: https://cutt.ly/4ff0L7e. Acesso em: 3 ago. 2020.

SEXTON, Jared. Afro-Pessimism: The Unclear Word. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, Bowling Green, n. 29, 2016. Disponível em: https://cutt.ly/1ffBhGo. Acesso em: 22 jul. 2020.

SNORTON, C. Riley. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

SPILLERS, Hortense J. Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book. Diacritics, Baltimore, v. 17, n. 2, p. 64-81, 1987. Disponível em: https://www.jstor.org/stable/464747. Acesso em: 02 jul. 2020.

SPILLERS, Hortense; HARTMAN, Saidiya; GRIFFIN, Jasmine et al. “Whatcha Gonna Do?”: Revisiting Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book: A Conversation with Hortense Spillers, Saidiya Hartman, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Shelly Eversley, & Jennifer L. Morgan. Women’s Studies Quarterly, Baltimore, v. 35, n. 1/2, p. 299-309, 2007. Disponível em: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27649677. Acesso em: 14 jun. 2020.

SPILLERS, Hortense. A Ideia de Cultura Negra. Revista Translatio, Porto Alegre, n. 13, p. 72-94, 2017. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/translatio/article/view/74345/42058 Acesso em: 28 jun. 2020.

SPIVAK, Gayatri Chakravorty. Pode o subalterno falar? Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2014.

TURIN, R.; AVILA, A.; NICOLAZZI, F. F. (org.). A História (in)Disciplinada: Teoria, ensino e difusão de conhecimento histórico. 1. ed. Vitória: Milfontes, 2019.

WARREN, Calvin. Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation. Durhan: Duke University Press, 2018.

WEHELIYE, Alexander. Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics and Black Feminist Theories of the Human. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2014.

WYNTER, Sylvia. “No Humans Involved”: An Open Letter to My Colleagues. Forum N.H.I. : Knowledge for the 21st Century: Knowledge on Trial, Stanford, v. 1, n. 1, p. 42-73, 1994.