Linguagens da fome

This article proposes an analysis of social practices related to food insecurity as described by Carolina Maria de Jesus (2018), considering them crucial to highlight the intersectional nature of hunger in modern-colonial capitalist society. In the work, language expresses an ordering of the world, exploring relations of domination, especially racism, sexism, and severe food insecurity. Hunger is interpreted as a form of domination imposed by manifestations of coloniality's power patterns, representing a historical relationship of subalternization of individuals. This is not limited to a static situation but is understood as an agent in the colonial continuum. As pointed out by Jesus, hunger is a form of enslavement (2018), resembling the abolished slavery in 1888 and sustaining the foundations of Western modern capitalism. In this context, a geopolitics of knowledge approach is adopted, recognizing it as a space of subject and sociability production. Jesus's movement is understood as a decolonial shift, manifested through her writing and the subjects of the work. Keywords: Carolina Maria de Jesus. Quarto de Despejo. Decoloniality. Hunger. Literature

Art · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights · Urban Development and Societal Issues