A força na voz da mulher indígena: Eliane Potiguara

Abstract

The speech of women, homosexuals, blacks, indigenous and other ethnic minorities is extremely necessary as they enrich and produce a social, political and cultural debate on concepts such as nation, identity, cultural production and social equality. Indigenous Literature and, especially, that produced by indigenous women such as Eliane Potiguara, are relevant within the studies of literary criticism. Therefore, the present work has as main objective to propose an analysis of the political speeches of the author Eliane Potiguara in order to analyze the concepts of Identity, woman and Earth in her literary work Metade cara, half mask (2004) as well as in her texts, published on social media. From this point, it is intended to deepen the studies on the textualities of the literary corpus to which the analysis is intended, as well as to analyze the concept of identity in the works of Eliane Potiguara, covering discussions about culture and the relation of confrontation with the other, identifying in the works reflections on gender and the place of speech of indigenous women in society and, finally, point out the reflections on Ecofeminism in the author's discourse.