A atriz da diáspora: um estudo sobre a poética-política de Zélia Amador de Deus

Abstract

The following work aims to analyze, using as basis the concept of diaspora of black people's performative body, by Zélia do Amador de Deus, the actress and director's artistic path and her poetic-politic character. The research was divided, aiming to make it possible to analyze its three main characters: Catirina, character from the work Coronel de Macambira, by Joaquim Cardozo (1998); Suely, character from the play Quarto de Empregada, by Roberto Freire (1993); and a nameless character, presented in the work Theastai Theatron. The reflexion that leads the research is done based in feminism as perspective of critical and theoretical analysis for the categories of stratum, genre, ethnicity, as stabilised theoretically by the philosopher Angela Davis (2016) and the battle against epistemicide, line of thinking relocated by the philosopher Sueli Carneiro (2005). By tracing Zélia Amador de Deus' artistic path, it is possible to find a new way to perceive the diaspora of black people's performative body and their descendants by the performative bias that represents the political-socio-cultural crossings that still continue to differentiate this body. Considering that it is a subject that begins in the body and does not detach itself from it, the analysis departs from the body and its main three characters, in order to demonstrate not only the artistic evolution of the actress, but mainly the political and existential development of a black woman in Amazon.