A escrita de Conceição Evaristo como possibilidade de um novo olhar para o sujeito feminino negro

Abstract

This research has as object of study the work "Olhos d’água" by Conceição Evaristo (2014). It is a collection of short stories, in which the author denounces violence in the periphery, through a primordial and engaged literature. We intend to show that "Olhos d'água" plays a very important role in literary criticism by breaking with social paradigms imposed through the years, and by placing black women in a prominent role as author of their own history. In this work we explore the structural characteristics of the short story, which give it authenticity and originality; The extreme violence and oppression experienced by black and poor women, commonly neglected by the rest of society; And the incorporation into the narrative of the three constituent elements of the tragedy. The interpretative hypothesis with which we work is that EVARISTO (2014), despite the difficulties encountered by black women in general, added to years of social exclusion, managed with "Eyes of water" to transform pain into shared suffering by giving voice to those who for years have been obscured by society. As a way of validating the hypothesis, a series of theoretical studies dealing with the problem of color prejudice is proposed, such as: (FANON (1983), GILROY (2012) and GLISSANT (2013-2014)). And to understand the complex and sophisticated character of the work, the constituents of the tragedy are investigated in four short stories from the theoreticians (Romilly (2008), GRIMAL (1978), WILLIANS (2002) and ARISTOTELES (2008)). Finally, the narrative is analyzed as Autofiction. Our hypothesis, based on FAEDRICH (2014), is that autofiction, a new literary genre still in the process of conceptualization, cooperates for the undressing of the subject, who writes to relieve pain, "to recover the skin, brutally wrenched from disappointment with people, with life, with the world "(FAEDRICH, 2014, 144).