Luta pela emancipação da mulher negra em contos de Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

The currect thesis aims at contributing to the critical field of contemporary afrobrazilian literature, focusing on women’s writing as its main perspective. This research tried to understand the concepts of coloniality of power, of knowing and of being, which were historically perpetuated throughout ideological structures, as well as political and economic strategies that rule the world by its elite within a system of exploitation in Latin America. Thus, the backbone of such investigation lies on the books written by afrobrazilian author Conceição Evaristo, which are: Insubmissas lágrimas de mulheres (2016) e Olhos d’água (2016), once afrobrazilian literature is full of poetical struggles and demonstrations of daily basis opressions, the ones kept by the ties and forces of coloniality. Far beyond her aesthetic, the writer and PhD in Literature, Conceição Evaristo, coined the concept of ‘escrivência’ (writing+living), the one our research sees as an answer to the coloniality of power, studied and deep developed by QUIJANO (2005) and, at the same time, connected to the idea of border thinking, the one developed along with the former, by MIGNOLO (2003). After all, this study seeks to investigate the real and fictional literary interpretations, unveiling the colonial traces and elements to, as a result, go forward to an overcoming from theses heavy inheritances through the construction of a potential border/other thinking. The approach was exclusively bibliographical, with the theoretical support above and also BARZOTTO (2019), EVARISTO (2008), DUARTE (2017), MALDONADO-TORRES (2019). The current thesis was funded by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) as an incentive for qualification and expansion of national Science. Keywords: