DIONNE BRAND AND SANDRO ORNELLAS: AN ENCOUNTER IN THE HOUSE OF REEXISTENCE

Abstract

The work presented here intends to bring the writer Dione Brand and the poet and teacher Sandro Ornellas closer to the aspect of reexistence, seeking to answer the question: how is reexistence present in the work of these authors? Dione Brand, a Caribbean-Canadian author, Toronto's third poet laureate, has produced a play about black women in the contemporary city that deserves attention. Both her poetry and her prose deal with the issues of black and post-colonial feminism in a strong, vibrant and contemporary way. Sandro Ornellas, professor of the Portuguese literature sector of the Federal University of Bahia, poet, brings a writing based on the drifts of subjectivity and the fatality of the body. The reexistence in Sandro Ornellas resides, first hand, not based directly on the issues tangent to ethnic-racial debates, gender or sexuality, but nevertheless, in the demands that pass through the field of solitude of the contemporary subject in front of the culture.