Unintelligible voices and oral silences: epistemologias do Sul in Rap global

Abstract

Rap global (OESTE [SANTOS] 2010) is a book of poems published by Boaventura de Sousa Santos under the pseudonym of Queni N. S. L. Oeste. My intention in this article is to understand, through the reading and enjoyment of this literary object, how it takes place in its process of instantiation and enunciative staging. I argue that such a process, in the work in focus, engenders the production of discursive geographies. Based on an examination of some excerpts from Santos' rapoema, I intend to highlight the relationship of such geographies with the concepts coined by the sociologist, namely, the “intercultural translation” and the “ecology of knowledge”, both integrated into the “epistemologies of the south”, of the Portuguese sociologist.

Keywords: Rap Global. Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Enunciative staging. Discursive geographies. Epistemologias do Sul.