Between literatures - the oríkì and the interpretations that never cease

In the conceptual space between, it is only possible to consider the other by observing the connotative organizations that persist in oppressive hegemonies. Configurations that do not seek to find ordering laws, but rather the meanings that are driven by their riddles and secrets. Outlining equations, noting the types of thoughts that these epistemological perspectives sound, is one of the objectives here. Observing the thought linked to the acts of living, by which it is understood that all reflection on the human is engaged and “theorizable”. It is in this elegant duel that the understandings of Roger Bastide and Juana Elbein dos Santos distinguish themselves when composing, through interpretation, analyses of narrative and poetic literary compositions. These two interlocutors of foreign origins are immersed in thought influenced by the symbolic system, better known as candomblé. In this conceptual framework, one can verify the definition of what oríkìs and itãs are. Bastide looks at the myth, Elbein considers the rite, in which we will follow her, looking at the function that these poetic forms assume in their expressiveness.

Keywords:
literary theory; semiology; Afro-Brazilian religiosity; oríkì