Cantar e curar : a tradição oral e as práticas mágico-religiosas como representações culturais afrodiasporicas a partir da obra Eu, Tituba : bruxa negra de Salem

Abstract

Afrodiasporic societies are constituted from a cultural diversity and hybrid elements, from the contact and exchanges between different peoples, a relationship that was fostered by the transatlantic trade process of enslaved Africans. Adapted or merged with European elements, African cultures had to mold themselves to the reality of colonization, consequently religious and social aspects, common to traditional African societies, such as: oral tradition and magical-religious practices acquired particular characteristics when transported across the Atlantic. Characters like Tituba are examples of these different enslaved individuals who were displaced from their homeland and had to find a new way to develop their ancestral rites. In this sense, this research aims to discuss the contemporary literary work Eu, Tituba: witch negra de Salem, using it as a historical source, to understand the postcolonial vision destined to the formation of a black identity through the process of African Diaspora, highlighting its constitutive aspects, as instruments of resistance, slave socialization and african reaffirmation.