Os desabrigados da História: para uma casa em Torto Arado

Abstract

From the History's silenced voices over the centuries, Torto Arado addresses the Água Negra's quilombola community's struggle in order to keep its time and space record, assuming that, then, its desire to belong in History. In fact, in this paper, we seek to present how this saga of keeping a time record is metaphorized by the collective dream of building masonry houses instead of mud houses. Thus, this interpretation also highlights the importance of the school and the education in the journey made until the masonry's construction, in order to argue that knowledge is a form of liberation. Eventually, we will hear the silenced voices that, in Torto Arado, bring to bear on building a house as form of resistance to the oppression experienced, thus building their own History.