Mulheres negras em protagonismo: a ressignificação da dor em Insubmissas Lágrimas de Mulheres

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the book Insubmissas lágrimas de mulheres (2016) [Insubmissive tears of women] by Conceição Evaristo. We show the misfortunes lived by black women in the narrative highlighting the central element of the work: violence, that transforms the short-stories. At first, the stories are individual but throughout the book, we have noticed their collective feature. Finally we explain how pain, symbolic or real, is responsible for giving a new meaning to those stories. The characters do not return to the same place of origin, subverting the expected end and, in that way, they reach a different place, reinvent their stories and become the main characters. As theoretical approach, we present critics that discuss black feminism in order to make us understand the importance as well as the social implications of that movement for black women in Brazil. We are also interested in the ideal of intersectionality which is a tool needed for understanding several kids of oppression that outlines black women's lives. Yet the narrator's importance and the concepts of 'painrority' and 'writing life-experience' that are in the author's narrative.