Brazilianness, enchantment and resistance: silence and this “thing of another order”

Abstract

From a discursive perspective that intersects/questions discourses sustained in coloniality, it seems unavoidable to us the concept of silence elaborated by Orlandi (1992) to compose a reflection that seeks the movements of domination and the practices of resistance around brazilianness. Thus, we place the notion of silence at the theoretical-political crossroads that seeks possible paths in the face of the traces of coloniality (Simas, 2019; Gonzalez [1984] 2020; Mbembe [2013] 2018). Such a gesture seems to open the paths to meanings whose forms point both to colonial/contemporary practices of violence, silencing, and oblivion, and to other movements that pass through the enchantment of the singing, the “giras”, the dancing bodies, the games, the drums, of a brazilianness spoken in a different tone.