Abstract

This article stems from results presented in the Research Master's thesis titled (Re)discovering São Paulo: Indigenous Memory and Narrative in the Resignification of Urban Space (2021). Thus, this work focuses on the analysis of the book Crônicas de São Paulo: Um Olhar Indígena or Chronicles of São Paulo: An Indigenous Perspective (my translation), by Daniel Munduruku (2019)MUNDURUKU, Daniel (2019). Crônicas de São Paulo: um olhar indígena. São Paulo: Callis., with a focus on the author's articulation around the denied episteme that the indigenous names present in the city evoke. The objective is to highlight how Munduruku, while reflecting on the indigenous words that name different regions of the metropolis, proposes a perspective that transcends the norms of temporality and spatiality, bringing to the forefront the ancestral layer of São Paulo that has been invisibilized. In this process, the author negotiates symbols and symbolisms, through the symbolic vacuums of the city, inspiring a decolonial reading of the metropolis.

Keywords:
indigenous literature; decoloniality; re-signification of the urban