UM RELATO DE SI EM ESSE CABELO, DE DJAIMILIA PEREIRA DE ALMEIDA: O CORPO COMO OBJETO DE VIOLÊNCIA ÉTICA

Abstract

In the present work, we will analyze the work Esse Cabelo (2015), by the Angolan writer Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, in the light of the categories proposed by Butler (2015) regarding the act of reporting to you. We will situate the work in the context of self-writing and self-reporting, discussing the notions of authorship posed by Focault (2001). We will discuss the transmutation of aesthetics into morals, demonstrating how this metamorphosis manifests itself in the work analyzed, and also verifying how the body, as an object of aesthetic standards, can become a victim of ethical violence. We will work on the hypothesis that this black body, understood as a political tool for understanding the world, is a potential object of the violence described by Butler, as it also submits to the moral claims of universality.