Considering the fat black woman’s carnivalesque strategies: new paths

Resumo

This article aims at analyzing the Caribbean author Grace Nichols’s poem “Winter Thoughts” from the book The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984). Departing from the idea that, inside the book, the fat black woman lives in a carnival world (BAKHTIN, 1984), this article discusses the carnivalesque strategies this woman uses to resist and question the violence and exclusion of our world. Relating her own body with the erotic, nature and knowledge, the fat black woman is able to create new and better concepts about herself and our world.