Samba, politics and (re)existence:

two plot sambas as a case study of minor literature

Abstract

This article aims to articulate the concept of Minor Literature by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari with the samba literature of the Carnival plot in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Due to its political, poetic, transgressive content, in a smaller language, being spoken in a larger language, samba produces a type of (re)existing literature. In other words, despite the capture processes, black voices echo as resistance, projecting new forms of existence. To this end, samba will be understood as multiplicity, a whirlwind of many things, connections, agencies. This notion will imply the analysis of two G.R.E.S. carnivals. United from Viradouro, they are: the 2020 one, Viradouro de Alma Lavada and the 2023 one, Rosa Maria Egipcácia. The interpretation of these carnivals involves reading the works that inspire the plot, that is, the monumental doctoral thesis by Harue Tanaka Sorrentino, Pedagógic Articulations in the Coro das Ganhadeiras de Itapuã: an ethnographic case study and the book by anthropologist Luiz Mott, Rosa Egipcácia : An African Saint in Brazil. In addition to the parades, themselves, and the poetry. In front of this instrumental, many themes emerge, such as interdisciplinarity, machismo in music, the history of black women.