In this essay, I propose a critical reflection on contemporary Black writing as a practice of reexistence, from a spiral and counter-hegemonic perspective. Structured in three movements, it explores the nocturnal subject as a rupture from the Cartesian model; writing as skin-verb shaped by lived experience; and escrevivências as collective and ancestral expressions of Black subjectivity. Through authors such as Conceição Evaristo, Carolina Maria de Jesus, Sueli Carneiro, and Stuart Hall, the text highlights Black literature as epistemic insurgency, where body, memory, and word construct new ways of being and expressing the world.
In this essay, I propose a critical reflection on contemporary Black writing as a practice of reexistence, from a spiral and counter-hegemonic perspective. Structured in three movements, it explores the nocturnal subject as a rupture from the Cartesian model; writing as skin-verb shaped by lived experience; and escrevivências as collective and ancestral expressions of Black subjectivity. Through authors such as Conceição Evaristo, Carolina Maria de Jesus, Sueli Carneiro, and Stuart Hall, the text highlights Black literature as epistemic insurgency, where body, memory, and word construct new ways of being and expressing the world.