Vivências da negritude feminina na obra "Olhos d'água" de Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

Contemporary times bring, through literary works, a vision of reality, experienced by many black people in Brazilian territory, which is intertwined with fiction, specifically, it is clear that the short stories contained in the work: Olhos d'água (2014), by Conceição Evaristo (Olhos d'Água, Ana Davenga and Duzu-Querença) present a reflection on the black feminine, that is, these narratives bring a reflection on the lives of black women, full of experiences that enter the fictional world of the writer Conceição Evaristo . The objective of this research is to analyze racism and the experiences of black women in the works/stories of Conceição Evaristo Olhos d'água, Ana Davenga and Duzu-Querença, interpret the behavioral and attitudinal expressions of female characters in this fictional scenario, which permeates the real world. One of these experiences felt personally by the writer herself stands out, summarized by her in a single word: "writings". The writing shared by the author reflects not only her trajectory, but also the daily struggle of thousands of black Brazilian women who seek various ways to survive in this scenario full of social inequality, prejudice and racial discrimination, where there is no appreciation of female blackness and its social contribution. Therefore, such meanings and resignifications can be grasped through the reader's contact with contemporary narratives such as these. Thus, from the point of view of procedures and techniques, the research was bibliographic in nature, using material published and made available in theoretical and literary books, articles, dissertations and theses. The objective was to demonstrate that contemporary literary reading transforms, builds, questions, reformulates and transfigures the imaginary into reality, in an interdisciplinary, transversal and contextualized way. In this aspect, it is concluded that the relationship between fiction and social reality, in Conceição Evaristo's short stories, highlights the problems that affect society at a given time, and that literature represents the denunciation, the discomfort evidenced in society through fiction, poetry and dramatization, in which ¿exaggeration¿ permeates this literary scenario, to show that this is accentuated in people's daily lives.