Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ROSINEIA DA SILVA FERREIRA

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STUDENT : ROSINEIA DA SILVA FERREIRA
DATE: 15/10/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Sala 35
TITLE:

Conceição Evaristo: The postcolonial voice in contemporary Brazilian literature

KEY WORDS:

Conceição Evaristo; Postcolonial; Contemporary Brazilian Literature; postcolonial themes.

PAGES: 114
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

This study aims to analyze the works of the Minas Gerais author Conceição Evaristo from the perspective of postcolonial theories. Therefore, her works will be inspected based on some of the common themes in postcolonial literature, among which the following were selected: violence, a denouncement; Displacements; Exploitation and Poverty: The Results of Perennial Racism; and Maternity, love and family: telling another story. The study of the proposed themes has as its main focus the condition of black women in the works, since Conceição Evaristo has a feminine and feminist aesthetic and political project in which black women are protagonists. The theme of violence is imperative in a study of post-colonial literature, as it appears in numerous works and reflects the daily reality of the subaltern classes, especially black women. Human displacements are also a common theme in postcolonial contexts, which is why their representation in the literary field is recurrent. Thus, it is necessary to highlight its relationship with literature in general and with contemporary Brazilian literature. The starting point for this theme is the differentiation between the various types of displacements that are based on studies of ancient and modern diasporas. Afterwards, it will be analyzed how displacements figure in the literature, forming what Braga and Gonçalves (2014) conceptualize as diasporic literature. As for the theme Exploitation and poverty: the results of perennial racism, the works will be critiqued from the perspective of the complaint that racism is constituted in the form of ideology, used as a strategy for domination, becoming one of the causes of social, political and mainly economic exclusion, through classification and segregation of people by race, preventing them from having access to the bare minimum for survival. Said ideology has persisted ever since colonial and slaveholding times. In the theme Maternity, love, family: telling another story, the works will be considered from a positive perspective of representation, because by telling another story, black writers, such as Conceição Evaristo, subvert stereotypes and portray black people in a good light, in which their lives are not limited solely to violence, poverty and suffering. Despite showing the difficulties, such narratives portray stories of financial success, with happy families, demonstrating that their characters are mothers. Mothers with ancestry and heritage, that is, with family and also love in its various forms, not just lonely people merely a foreman, a cook or, when a mother, simply the black mother who takes care of the bosses' children. Such representation subverts the singular history and reconstructs a narrative silenced throughout centuries. For the aforementioned, Edward W. Said (2007; 2003); Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin (2002); Bonnici (2012); Duarte (2010; 2013); Cuti (2010); Davis (2016); Gonzalez (1988); Birth (2018); Saffioti (1999; 2016); Safran (1991); Cohen (2008); Chariandy (2006); Braga and Gonçalves (2014), among others, serve as a theoretical basis.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 6414821 - CINTIA CARLA MOREIRA SCHWANTES
Externa à Instituição - GRACIANE CRISTINA MANGUEIRA CELESTINO - UNIPLAN
Interno - 1467761 - PAULO PETRONILIO CORREIA
Interno - 2654468 - WILIAM ALVES BISERRA