As representações do corpo negro-feminino na contística de Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

This research develops an analysis of stories by Conceição Evaristo contained in the works Olhos d'água (2016) and Insubmissas lágrimas de mulheres (2016). The reading of the tales is carried out from the body conceptions of black women and what characterizes each character in the narratives. Evaristo's characters are marked by the various ills that affect the peripheral Brazilian black woman. There are also women's bodies that reconfigure their entire reality (social or psychic) so that the process of domination is broken and they can also achieve emancipation and occupy their place of speech. What this research observes is that, frequently, the denunciation of violence and the discursive formations of the characters occur through the manifestations of their bodies. Therefore, the degraded body, the violated body, the subalternized body, the eroticized body, the emancipated body and the reconfigured body are investigated. The theoretical support that guides these analyzes consists, mainly, of the works of authors who debate the concepts of corporality, black feminism, female authorship literature, matripotência and the intersection of gender, race and class, such as Elizabeth Grosz (2000), Elódia Xavier (2021), Carla Akotirene (2020), Arthur Frank (1996), among others and others