Escrevivências decoloniais e o corpo encantado em Conceição Evaristo

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Francielle Suenia da
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Letras; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Estudos literários; Decolonial; Corpo encantado; Diáspora; Conceição Evaristo; Autoria de mulheres negras; Literary studies; Enchanted body; Authorship by black women; Encantamiento; Cuerpo encantado; Escritura de mujeres negras; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/25808

The present research focuses on the narrative literary works produced by the contemporary Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo. The corpus of analysis involves short stories and novel published in the works Olhos d’água (2015) and Histórias de leves enganos e parecenças (2016), as well as a novel belonging to the last work mentioned. The main objective is to present the concept of the categories of enchanted body and terreiro body from the decolonial epistemology, as well as from the perspective of enchantment from the analysis of central female characters of the narratives under study. The bodies of the African diaspora and their descendants were marked by the yoke of coloniality and suffer, to this day, the consequences of a practice that tries to provoke disenchantment and the erasure of the experiences, sciences and cultures of different peoples. It can be said that, historically, in Brazilian literature, the body of the black woman was subjugated, used as an object of work and sexual/erotic exploitation. In this way, the representation of this subject is sometimes stigmatized, which reinforces a sexist and racist thinking. Contrary to what society imposes, there is, in Evaristian texts, another possibility of representation of black women in literature. Often, this presence is endowed with a charge of enchantment that allows these characters to add a spiritual and religious semantics to the texts, allowing an association with the deities of Afro-Brazilian religions. To attend to this aspect, this work proposes to discuss the texts through an analytical proposal called enchanted body. From this category, it was possible to observe that the female characters are directed to the propagation and maintenance of life, individually and collectively, manifesting an ancestral practice. In addition, through the analysis, it was found that the strength and power of the female characters are linked both to the family lineage and to the orixás and deities that accompany them. In the same way, Evaristian writing gives evidence of participation in a writing ritual in which the author, characters and readers fulfill an ancestral role for the existence of the work, proposing a resignification of the function of literature in society, opening space for the existence of what was titled in this work as terreiro body. Therefore, the links that connect enchantment and decoloniality are exposed through the discussions proposed by the oppositional lineage and the miraculous actions experienced by enchanted bodies, as well as the ritualistic action experienced by the act of writing. The research is centered on the decolonial theories of Dussel (1993); Mignolo (2017); Maldonado-Torres (2019); the black and decolonial feminism of Segato (2012); Lugones (2019); Gonzalez (2019); Curiel (2019); Collins (2019); Carneiro (2019); and hooks (2019); of the enchantment with Oliveira (2012); Rufino (2019); Simas (2020); the black intellectuals of hooks (1995) and Santos (2018); the oralitura by Martins (1997); and with the escrevivências of Evaristo (2020).