On Amefricanity in Black Literary Discourses: Cartographic Perspectives on Technodiscourses about Lélia Gonzalez and Carolina Maria de Jesus

ABSTRACT This article investigates the potentialities of Lélia Gonzalez’s thought for studies of the multiple discursive expressions of/about Black people in Brazil. To do so, we employ two analytical strategies divided into two parts. First, we map out Gonzalez’s key concepts that manifest her seminal theoretical reflections on culture, gender, and language, arguing that her theorizations on Amefricanity, Afro-Latin American feminism, and Pretuguese form a conceptual archive for the analysis of black (con)texts. Then, we examine the technodiscursive production related to Carolina Maria de Jesus and Gonzalez, exploring how these writers and their trajectories are named, narrated, and remembered on different digital platforms. The methodology involves building a research corpus through posts on the authors in various languages and the quantitative and qualitative analyses of the themes present in the tweets. In so doing, we unearth the sociohistorical meanings, voices and counterpublics that emerge around them, broadening the understanding of contemporary black experiences.