“Cada outro é cada outro”: do currículo e diferença em quilombola do Arrojado

Abstract

The thesis text announces an exercise of responding to the (im)possibility of an autobiographical narrative of mine with the quilombolas of Arrojado, located in the city of Portalegre, in the countryside of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. Taken by the question “Is an autobiography possible?”, the writing carries my memorized and re-memorized experience of events in the quilombo of Arrojado. And, in it, blurs to think about recognition, identity, naming, color criteria, race, religious manifestation, curricular policy, and the appearance of bodies as a claim for a more livable life - relating the lives of the Arrojados with my own life. It is, therefore, about different senses and meanings for the events that involve my life as a woman, of light color – named white –, with the quilombolas of Arrojados, named brown. What I sometimes present as a narrative, sometimes an autobiographical narrative, and sometimes an autobiography. They are just nominations, but, whatever the form used, escape the dense description and linearity for any event. It does not present a conscious and sensitive process to experiences, because what is at stake is the language of subjectivity. This condition carries the propositions of Janet Miller's studies (2010; 2014; 2021) with autobiography from a post-structural perspective. In the effort of narrative, what she guides is to remain disoriented to any version of history and herself. Heir to this thought, partial to what I narrate, I defend other ways of thinking about curriculum theorization and curriculum policy of education in quilombolas. My bet is subject to the unpredictable and undecidable of life in which it resists what appears to be a transparent and universal reality.