Travelling intellectuals, postcolonial spaces

ruptures, mediations, subversions in the work A ilha da chuva e do vento, by Simone Schwarz-Bart

Abstract

This article aims to develop a reading of the black diaspora experience as a catalyst of changes in the relation man-earth-identity since the diasporic condition produces a critical and subversive spirit that acts in the dissolving of authoritarian and excluding human practices and occupations. The continuity of the colonial legacy in the form of racism, boundaries, and unequal political and economic relations are highlighted in it. Emblematic names of the black diaspora will be listed, being articulated with the work A ilha da chuva e do vento, by Simone Schwarz-Bart, which, with each other, sketch a counternarrative to the concepts of nation and national identity, bringing, in contrast, a flexibilization of the spatial and identity references. This group of intellectuals speaks from traveling and mediation experiences, in order to add to the postcolonial thinking the projection of intercultural spaces, from which the overcoming of the colonial heritage of violence and strangeness is visualized.