Acuierlombadas dissident epistemologies

“lundu,” by Tatiana Nascimento

Abstract

dissident epistemologies, such as those produced by tatiana nascimento in her book of poems, “lundu,” (2018), decentralize authoritarian forms of knowledge, whose eurocentric and cis-heteropatriarchal perspectives have served epistemic plundering. in this article, we engage with the poems “exhibit b, v.6:” and “diz/faço qualquer trabalho (y (m)eu amor de volta todo dia,” found in tatiana nascimento’s work “lundu” (2018). we focus on epistemologies that blur the lines of western modern knowledge, reconsider the locus of enunciation, and embrace afro-diasporic linguistic and cultural wisdom. these epistemologies construct and bring visibility to knowledge demonized by ethnocentrism, valuing epistemic and linguistic transgressions, as well as counter-hegemonic processes of enunciation.