Author

Sankofa, Juliana

Brazilian poet, researcher, and professor from the state of Minas Gerais. Her writing explores ancestry, Black identity, memory, and resistance. Her poems were published in translation in Afro-Hispanic Review in 2024. She holds a PhD in Literary Studies, with research focused on the work of Black writer Miriam Alves and the relationships among literature, knowledge, and Afro-diasporic thought.

Publications in The Rang Yan Review

Poetry

Five Poems contemporary

Juliana Sankofa

The body emerges here as a contested archive in which the afterlives of slavery, the intimate violences of gendered power, and the historical dispossession of Black subjectivity are inscribed, resisted, and continually rewritten through the material force of language. Refusing the disciplinary grammars of racial capitalism and patriarchal intimacy, this poetry reclaims tenderness, desire, anger, and self-representation as practices of political agency, transforming writing into an insurgent act of recovering what colonial history sought to erase and what the present continues to render unspeakable.

  • poetry
  • translation
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