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Unlearning as Decolonial Ecology in mala voadora's Amazónia

Authors

  • Artur Kon ECA-USP

Abstract

The article analyzes the play Amazónia, created by Portuguese company mala voadora in 2018, in order to investigate the possibility of a decolonial self-criticism by European creators. Fundamental in this sense is not so much the presentation of an alternative knowledge, which is assumed to already exist ready to be absorbed, but an operation of “unlearning”, as advocated by thinkers such as Walter Mignolo. This will imply seeing in the play less a clear distinction between colonizers and colonized, whites and blacks, villains and heroes, and much more a purposeful confusion between those poles, exploring something close to the “double consciousness” discussed by W. E. B. Du Bois.

Published

2024-06-15