Sonorous Breaches: Resistances and Recreations Fraying Political and Cultural Systems

Abstract

This article thematizes the promotion of sonorous breaches by segments of subalterned groups. Sonorous breaches are considered resistance and partial recreation practices of the conditions for existence before processes of exploitation, pillage and even of annihilation that historically such social segments have encountered. We consider that sonorous breaches fray postulates of legitimization of identity and hierarchy bound to sensibilities and rationalities, thus contributing to fissure the hegemony of political and cultural systems established in modernity. We suggest, as a hypothesis, that sonorous breaches proceed through a triple modus operandi: 1) its incessant movement, making it difficult to be completely capitalized or reified; 2) its imbrication in the sensory and in the corporeality, through the activation of particular epistemologies; 3) its invocation of utopian orders of the social, by means of the interconnection with cosmologies, ancestry, etc. We proceed to an interpretation of sonorous breaches actualized by Amerindians, Africans and Afro-descendants in the lands of the State of Minas Gerais during the XVIII and XIX centuries. In theoretical terms, we have based our reflection mainly in the work of the Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau, who, approaching the sonorities as the "other" in western writings, indicated its potential as "art of the making" and "tactics" of the weak.