Escrevivência: escrita, identidade e o eu feminino negro em Ponciá Vicêncio de Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

This work has the goal to analyze how the construction of the black female self in the novel Ponciá Vicêncio, by Conceição Evaristo, through the concept of personal narrativeand identity. When the writer puts the black woman as the protagonist makes her voice and opportunity empowers, breaking the chains of subalternity that silence the woman and the black people over the centuries, giving them the right to self-represent. In order to reach the proposed objectives we will start from the reflections presented by some researchers of the subjects in question, for example Mirian Alves, Djamila Ribeiro, Stuart Hall, Ana Rita Santiago, Nei Lopes and others. The black woman in this book stops being represented and begins to self-represent, telling and recounting their stories through their own experiences, showing a vision from the inside out with respect to the fears, dreams and life of a protagonist and black woman. The "personal narrative" of Conceição Evaristo is impregnated with her status as a black woman in Brazilian society, that unfortunately is still a part misogynist and racist society. It is a bibliographical research and for elaboration, we draw a path with four chapters. The first seeks to know more about the writing of black writers in Brazil, the second brings a breviary about the writer's work in order to know more about her style and aesthetics. Then we discussed some questions about ancestry and identity as well as some perspectives of the black female self in this book.Throughout the study it was possible to perceive that Evaristo breaks the lenses imposed by those who speak of a gender or an ethnic group without experience or knowledge of cause and offers voice to black woman silenced for generations by the patriarchalism and the racial prejudice, so that she tells her own story and feelings through her personal narrative.