“So, I draw our spinning wheel”

escrevivência as a political-poetic alliance through reports between academy and teaching

Abstract

This article takes escrevivência as its central subject of study. Based on escrevivência, it proposes interpretations and experiences drawn from academic reports and the teaching practices of three graduates from the Doctorate in Literature and Social Practices program at Poslit/UnB. Through their testimonies, research, and arguments, this article explores how escrevivência can mobilize social emancipation and critical thinking. Through this tool, it was possible to reconcile narrative perceptions and performances, as well as to expand the theoretical and socio-political framework. Escrevivência escapes traditional methodological boundaries, as it suggests an art form that moves through the liberatory everyday practice by inducing the performance of the word as a fundamental theory of Black Brazilian art. For that, the theoretical framework adopted in this article centers the work of Conceição Evaristo, in open dialogue with Denise Ferreira da Silva, Nilma Lino Gomes, Bárbara Carine, Sonia Coutinho, Lewis Ricardo Gordon, among others. In light of the above, this article experiments with language, lived experience, and life as crossed by Evaristian narratives, using them as a political-social starting point to engage with Black Brazilian art through a broad, deep, and liberatory way of living literature, in its theory and in its human praxis in daily life.