As vivências do candomblé na poesia ancestral de Oliveira Silveira

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the literary production of the afro-gaúcho poet Oliveira Silveira, the analyses of his poems will be focused on the following issues: afro-brazilian religion (batuque afrograndense), memory and ancestry. Therefore, it will want to prove that Oliveira poems aims to demonstrate his afro-brazilianism, as the place where afro-descendants belong in Brazil and the affirmation of African descent in the literary scene. To make such discussion, it will be used critic and theoretical frameworks regarding afro-brazilian literature and literary theory. It will be concluded that Oliveira Silveira a negro poet, attempts to recall his lost african ancestry showing to the further afrodescendants the history of their heros, search remembering his lost African ancestry, Mother Africa and african-Brazilian religion as a support for his poetic creation