Negras vozes femininas – travessias: um defeito de cor, de Ana Maria Gonçalves e a lírica de Luedji Luna

Abstract

The research aims, through Comparative Literary Studies, to identify similarities and differences between approaches and themes related to the black female in the diaspora present in the productions of artists Ana Maria Gonçalves (2006) and Luedji Luna (2017 and 2020) to point out possible contributions to black female (re)existences in Brazilian literature. The lyrics of the songs composed by Luedji Luna (2017 and 2020) present historical aspects of black women's writings. Ancestry, identity, and motherhood are striking features of her compositions. The novel Um defeito de cor (2006), written by Ana Maria Gonçalves, is narrated in the first person by its protagonist - Kehinde/Luíza - who lived through the diaspora and slavery, but who managed to transgress the subordinate and subjugated condition in a colonialist-patriarchal society in a haughty way, through serendipity and resistance. The guiding axis of our study concentrates on the question: how can the texts produced by Luedji Luna and Ana Maria Gonçalves contribute to the black female (re)existence in our literature? As the theoretical basis of this work, although not exclusively, we use the authors: Conceição Evaristo (2013) - to think about the concept of escrevivências; Aimeé Bolaños (2010) - to discuss diaspora; Grada Kilomba (2019) - to study about colonialism and black female resistance; Achille Mbembe (2018) - to deal with the concept of necropolitics; Denys Cuche (1999) - to deal with identity and culture; Lélia González (1988) and Audre Lorde (2019) - to think about black women's experiences. The analyzed corpus is composed by the novel Um defeito de cor (2006), by Ana Maria Gonçalves, and the poetic lyrics: "Acalanto"; "Asas"; "Cabô"; "Iodo + Now fragile"; "Saudação malungo" and "Um corpo no mundo", present in the album Um corpo no mundo (2017) and "Ain't I a Woman"; "Banho de folhas", "I Ain't Got No" and "Uanga", present in the album Bom mesmo é estar debaixo d'água (2020). The texts selected here as research objects dialog mimetically with the historical context to which they refer and with each other, from the perspective of the protagonism of black women, the African diaspora, and culture. Literary creations that go beyond representation, aimed at (re)existences as ways to expand readings and debates, and produce new constructions of meaning in the social and literary scopes - expected previous results.