(AUTO) INSCRIÇÃO COMO RESISTÊNCIA ONTOLÓGICA: MAHOMMAHGARDO BAQUAQUA E SUA NARRATIVA PARA A LIBERDADE

Elisangela Oliveira De Santana

doi:10.31418/2177-2770.2020.v12.c2.p410-430

Abstract

This article is the result of my underway research project in the Postgraduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences (PÓSAfro) at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), which consists of the study of Mohamed Gardo Baquaqua’ autobiography (1854), understanding his trajectory and the strategies of survival and humanization in the African diaspora, considering his narrative, in the process of (self) registration, as an instrument to fight subordination for the emancipation of slavery, constituting itself , therefore, in collective representation of the memories of the captive Africans of the plantation, in a missionary project of freedom. This text is structured as follows: I. (Auto) biography of Baquaqua; II - Invisibility and the silencing of black subjectivities and III - (Self) inscription and ontological resistance. KEYWORDS: Baquaqua. Dehumanization. (Auto) registration. Ontological resistance. &nbsp

Highlights

This article is the result of my underway research project in the Postgraduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences (PÓSAfro) at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), which consists of the study of Mohamed Gardo Baquaqua’ autobiography (1854), understanding his trajectory and the strategies of survival and humanization in the African diaspora, considering his narrative, in the process of registration, as an instrument to fight subordination for the emancipation of slavery, constituting itself, in collective representation of the memories of the captive Africans of the plantation, in a missionary project of freedom
Esse enunciado expressa a vontade de Baquaqua de vir a ser homem e, neste caso, surge uma provocação: Em algum momento, ele sentiuse desumanizado, habitante da zona da não existência? Em contrapartida, ao reorganizar suas narrativas e memórias, as noções de pertencimento e de análise sociais podem desafiar o projeto de negação de si mesmo (CABRAL, 1972) e de enclausuramento (FANON, 2008) que as empresas coloniais pretendiam ao sujeito escravizado?
Salientamos que a escravidão pretende despersonalizar e desumanizar os indivíduos, contudo, a partir de sua narrativa autobiográfica, eles podem voltar a protagonizar sua própria história tornando-se “humanos” novamente, uma vez que a biografização ocorre no processo de reflexividade e reinvenção do sujeito

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Introduction

This article is the result of my underway research project in the Postgraduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences (PÓSAfro) at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), which consists of the study of Mohamed Gardo Baquaqua’ autobiography (1854), understanding his trajectory and the strategies of survival and humanization in the African diaspora, considering his narrative, in the process of (self) registration, as an instrument to fight subordination for the emancipation of slavery, constituting itself , in collective representation of the memories of the captive Africans of the plantation, in a missionary project of freedom.

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