Palhaça Preta na Amazônia: decolonialidade, corpo e riso

Abstract

This paper approaches clowning and comicity based on issues of the female gender and black identities within the Amazonian cultural context. Thus, this research suggests a dialogue about the construction of lola clown, in the context of the city of Manaus - AM, having as a starting point the investigation of clowning in racial and gender clippings to think about how these issues influence the artistic making and comicity of the clown Lola. To this effect, assuming a decolonial perspective approaches the artistic making, in order to seek comic references in black aesthetics. Here, black aesthetics is understood in the field of performing arts a conception of the artist, proposing to overcome social stereotypes. In counterpoint, laughter is analyzed in a symbolic perspective, proposing as a phenomenon inherent to the human condition, therefore, crossed by its historical and cultural context. It is then sought to verify possibilities of laughter in an anti-racist dimension. As a method we used the qualitative approach and the resource of autobiography, aiming to report my experiences as a black woman in clowning and in the academic space. In this journey I felt the absence of documentary materials of other black clowns, inserted in the academic space about clowning. Black women, in recording their stories, propose a movement of subversion to our historical silencing and marginalization of our bodies. The autobiography also seeks to give support and meaning to the disposal of possibilities to think about the social space and enable interpretations about the clowning being, within its specificities, thinking about the need to register black clowning in the city of Manaus - AM from the perspective of first person, starting from sensitive perceptions of clowning. The main result of this research signaled the dimension of laughter in multiple perspectives, the language of feminist clowning, performance art, as a enabler of creative and political freedom of lola clown ing and the issue of the comic figure and the subversion of satire to figures of power.