Black Feminist Spatial Imagination and Geographies of Liberation in Indivisível

Abstract In this article, the author discusses Marília Marz’s graphic novel Indivisível (2018) through the lens of Black feminist spatial imagination. One of the first works of fiction to rectify the absence of the portrayal of the Black history of the Liberdade neighborhood in São Paulo, the visual narrative offers direct links between struggles for liberation of enslaved peoples, the cultural relevance of local ancestral places of worship and the transformation of the area’s ethnic identity. A principal task of the Black feminist imagination, the author argues, is to reinterpret and rewrite narratives in ways that reveal the liberatory dimensions of Black feminist epistemology. This involves recovering and centering histories and practices with a critical look toward the meanings and uses of Black space. Moreover, the author’s reading of Indivisível demonstrates the centrality of literature and culture as critical spaces of representation that model exercises in reparative imagination.