Time and Ancestry in Edimilson de Almeida Pereira

Abstract

The article intends to discuss the notions of time and ancestry in the writing of the poet and critic Edimilson de Almeida Pereira. A black essayist and thinker who has allowed us, based on his crossroads-literature, to tension and erase not only the hegemonic critique, but also the authoritative, canonical discourse of white supremacy. His poetic criticism has enabled us, from a diasporic perspective, to offset new rumors for criticism and broaden the lens on ancestry. For this, we will focus on his works O ausente [The Absent] (2020) and Orfe(x)u e Exunouveau: análise de uma estética de base afrodiaspórica na literatura brasileira [Orfe(x)u and Exunouveau: Analysis of an Afrodiasporic-Based Aesthetics in Brazilian Literature] (2022) as theoretical-epistemological corpus, we will focus on the conception of time and ancestry, as problematized by our ancestor Leda Martins (2021) from a spiral point of view, as wel as on Eduardo Oliveira (2023) in his aesthetic-ancestral regime, and on the “terreiro-literature” [Sacred Ground Literature] forged by Henrique Freitas (2016), unfolded at the crossroads theoretical and epistemological ideas from thinkers such as Muniz Sodré (2017) and Luiz Rufino (2019). These ideas have made us problematize and expand criticism from the Afro-Brazilian diaspora originating from terreiros [sacred grounds].