Indigenous poetics: reclaiming feminine-territory-bodies to possible-future-arrows

Abstract

By imagining possible worlds for bodies-territories that are deprived and dispossessed of the land, Brazilian indigenous poets perform a poignant spectacle through their literary productions: body-poems that cry out for ethnicity and ancestry. These writers offer us other ways of understanding and experiencing the planet, challenging the boundaries between local knowledge and coloniality which enables the experience of envisioning other possible futures, distinct from this (capitalist) approaching one, seemingly condemned to geoclimatic catastrophes and to our failure as human beings. This article proposes a reading of three poems from contemporary Indigenous poets, each of them belonging to diverse ethnic groups: Márcia Kambeba, Txai Suruí, and Auritha Tabajara. The choice is justified because all of them explore the concept of body-territory – albeit from seemingly distinct points of view – as an act of counter-colonial obstinacy. To this end, we will use  analysts of the predominantly Brazilian native peoples as methodological support analysts, such as Eliane Potiguara (2024), Creuza P. Krahô (2023), Nego Bispo (2021), among others.