Indigenous women writers and the decolonization of the media imagination
Media; Decoloniality; Indigenous writings; Decolonization of the media imagination
It is analyzed what Brazilian indigenous writers do to propagate their ideas (which media-communication strategies they use), which ideas they activate, and how these narratives help to disseminate another view of the world. I specifically reflect on how narratives (mediatized) become an act of decolonization, when writers oppose colonial positions. The already collected data indicate that indigenous poets are part of a broader movement that promises to change the way indigenous peoples are portrayed, and consequently treated, within a dominant media imagery, which legitimizes the simultaneous destruction of socio-diversity and biodiversity, by embodying the desire to transform media’s imaginary through the combined use of artistic-media-communicational devices in order to tension dominant practices and meanings and prevent subordinate voices from continuing to be subordinate.