THE MALANDER'S PHILOSOPHY: AESTHETICS OF A BODY ENCHANTED BY DISOBEDIENCE
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The aim of this article is to provoke reflections on the philosophical aspect of the trickster's body game as an act of resistance to Eurocentric hegemonic knowledge. I propose, therefore, to deal with trickery as an ethnic-racial gesture of disobedience to colonialism. I observe that this afrorreferenced behavior is crossed by body spellings that generate other epistemological logics in addition to Cartesianism. Two questions underlie my reflections in this article: Would the subject's body game be called a trickster, a philosophical strategy to disobey colonial patterns of behavior? What would be the reason for the terms, malemolence and pelintra, which are part of the vocabulary of Afro-Brazilian culture, to be approached in a prejudiced and derogatory way in Portuguese-language dictionaries?
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