Abstract

MENDES, Rogério. Absent Knowledge from the "Lettered City". For a Mestizo Illustration. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.1, pp.121-159.  Epub Apr 06, 2020. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v23n1.90597.

The present article suggests taking arguments about the importance of Afro-descendants and indigenous knowledge in the process of formation of Latin American societies and literacies from the understanding of the concept of "lettered city". Based on notes of historical and literary landmarks, the article presents possible reasons for the invisibility of cosmogonies, cosmovisions, and epistemologies that make up the Latin American multiconstitutive cultural mosaic and compromise a broad, current, and democratic literary-critical perspective. By valuing the organic contributions of cultural diversity and emphasizing the perspective of their voices without mediation, this article is believed to contribute visualizing the importance of critical references that represent the historical and anthropological marks of the region and how they impacted their literature. It is hoped, with this, to reiterate the need for new sensitivities and critical epistemologies to understand, in a responsible way, the demand for critical and creative projects that highlight and value heterogeneous and ancestral references as a basis of a critic system.

Keywords : literary criticism; Afro-descendant culture; indigenous culture; Latin American literature.

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