Ancestralidade e dororidade em Olhos d’água, de Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate the current possibilities of how the production and consumption of black literature, by female authors, has been an important tool for promoting black intellectuality and aesthetics, identifying the problems still encountered today and verifying the possibilities of literary ascension of blackness through this. From then on, the work Olhos d’água (2016) by Conceição Evaristo will be used with an analysis of the short stories that will be mentioned later throughout this dissertation. Necessary aspects were found in the work for the production of this work: the background of the work, the characters, the territories, the Brazilian African diaspora process, the violence in urban centers, LGBTQIA+ identities and, also, education as a practice of rise and social transformation. To support these reflections, a dialogue with black feminism was structured to question the vicissitudes of contemporary black women and is an essential articulation with class, gender and race; and for this it is necessary to talk about access to Literature as a right, using the theoretical reference of Antônio Candido in The right to Literature and other essays (2004); on social and gender issues of female and black literary production, it will be important to use works by bell hooks (1995), Angela Davis in Women, race and class (2016), Conceição Evaristo herself (1946) in criticism to make the outline of this entire process here in Brazil, in Brazilian-black literary aesthetics with the work Aesthetics and race: essays on black literature (2021), by author Luiz Mauricio Azevedo and the importance of quilombomento in this process, a necessary reading of Grada Kilomba in Memórias da Plantação: episodes of everyday racism (2019)