Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: PAMELA CAROLAYNE OLIVEIRA DE SOUZA

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STUDENT : PAMELA CAROLAYNE OLIVEIRA DE SOUZA
DATE: 11/07/2026
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Google meet
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PAGES: 78
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUMMARY:

This work stems from the need for research into the Marxist basis that characterizes the work

of the African-American poet and activist Audre Lorde (1934-1992). Efforts are focused on

scrutinizing her essays Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefine Difference and Grenada

Revisited: A Provisional Report, which appear in the collection Sister Outsider (2021). The objective

of the study of these essays is to demonstrate how Lorde's work appropriates dialectical historical

materialism in order to undertake a concrete analysis of the situation of peoples oppressed by

colonialism, while also denouncing the ills that bourgeois reactionism institutes through the systematic

oppression of dissidents. The first chapter explores Lorde's theoretical contribution based on her novel

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography (2020) in order to explain how Lorde sees

capitalism as a producer of suffering of sensitivity and a repressor of people's sexuality. This section of

the work also demonstrates how the author uses writing as a space of resistance to systems of

oppression and how the relationships she builds throughout her career inform and broaden the scope of

her imagination from a revolutionary and dissident perspective. The second chapter draws on Latin

American and Caribbean Marxist authors Brian Meeks (1953–) and Nestor Kohan (1967–) to shed

light on Lorde's materialist basis. Meeks, with his analysis of the Grenadian revolution, helps us

understand that Audre Lorde's concept of self-definition does not obey bourgeois politics of

representation, but is constituted from the concrete possibility of self-determination of the (racialized)

Third World peoples of the world. With Kohan, the revolutionary character of Lorde's writing takes on

the ideological contours of a science whose poetics does not shy away from political commitment,

characterizing itself as praxiology circumscribed in Age, Race, Class, and Sex and in Granada

Revisited. The third and final chapter of this work situates Lorde in the realm of a feminist sister and

another Marxist, namely Cleona Hudson Weems (1945–) and Brazilian philosopher Lélia González

(1935-1994). In dealing with Weems' text, the aim is to understand the extent to which the poet links

herself to the philosophical propositions of this Afrocentric conception of thinking about politics.

When considering González's book Por um feminismo afro-latino-americano (For an Afro-Latin

American Feminism), the aim is to highlight how Lorde's political philosophy is complicit with

González's concept of Amefricanity.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1718581 - EDUARDO ANIBAL PELLEJERO
Externa à Instituição - MARIA CRISTINA LONGO CARDOSO DIAS - UFES
Interna - 3290329 - RAQUEL PATRIOTA DA SILVA