“Hoje somos festa, amanhã seremos luto” – a reading from the favela in Drummond and MC Smith
Abstract
In this text intend to approach the 12th stanza of the poem “Favelário Nacional”, by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, present in the book Corpo (1984), and the song “Vida Bandida Parte 1”, by MC Smith, composed by Thiago dos Santos ( Praga) which, despite being distant in time and being written from two different social perspectives, address how capitalism, violence and racism construct new forms of death and mourning in the individual. In both, it is possible to see how the State, based on the concept of Necropolitics (2018), delimits the conditions of the individual. This analysis, therefore, turns to thinking about the marginalized bodies in Drummond and MC Smith and reflecting on the favela based on what Frantz Fannon says in Os condenados da terra (2022) about the division between the city of the colonizer and the city of the colonized. Thus, it is possible to see in both writings that the Brazilian State offers, in different ways, oppression to certain bodies that, even with death and mourning intertwined with the place, celebrate because they exist and when they do not celebrate, it is as if they didn’t exist.
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