Pereira de Araújo, Alex2025-01-092024ISSN2674-6360https://deposita.ibict.br/handle/deposita/735The genesis of this decolonial study begins with the essay that undertook a discussion about Exu and black diasporic culture. Its developments were responsible for the appearance of two other studies: one on Candomblé in Bahia and religious syncretism, and another on the decolonial concept of speech-language as a crossroads. The article about Exu, written in English, was also responsible for the invitation to write a chapter of a book, also in English, on human rights, religious freedom and anti-racist struggles in Black Diasporic Latin America. In turn, this text allowed for the appearance of a good part of the discussion that took place in the book chapter on the front line of Jorge Amado’s political struggles in the 100 years of the Communist Party of Brazil, when the theme of bahianity took shape. Now, in this new study, which I now present, the discussion seeks to answer the questions: “What is bahianity?” and “How does literature decode it throughout history?”. To this end, I use pragmatic discourse analysis as a methodology, which is a tributary of discursive-deconstructive analysis, taking literary discourse as an observable object, since, in this approach, all discourse is the result of the historical conditions of production (cf. ARAÚJO, 2020). In other words, I resort to poetic works by Bahian authors (texts, songs), taken as discourse to answer such questions about bahianityapplication/pdfopenAccessBaianidadeMetafísica ocidentalSincretismo religiosoCarnavalizaçãoLinguagemAntropologiaLetrasArtigo