Writing as hospitality in A queda do céu, by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert

Abstract

 Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert made The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman together. Considered a prophecy, this book of complex authorship tells of a world (not only Yanomami) visited, colonized, catechized, invaded, defended, threatened. The other, there, is the napë, a word that comes to refer to white man, as well as enemy and foreigner. From the relationship between Kopenawa and Albert, I analyse The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman as a performance that aims at a still unknown hospitality that would dissolve the paradox which constitutes it: for he who is hospitable (the host) must be the owner of the house, he who has a right to a territory and thus would allow the other in. My hypothesis is that the future hospitality of Jacques Derrida is possible today for a Yanomami and in the relationship he imposes on those who say a kind of "yes" in the act of reading The Falling Sky. In addition, The Falling Sky, with its multiple origins, human and non-human, corroborates an authorship that denies the property and that impels the reader to take a position.