APHRODIASPORIC ANCESTRALITIES IN LITERATURE

NARRATIVES OF (RE)EXISTENCE IN THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO

Abstract

This text seeks to analyze the social thought of Conceição Evaristo used in the works Ponciá Vicêncio, Becos da Memória and Olhos D´água. Starting from the assumption that the author inserts herself as an exponent of Brazilian social thought, along with the understanding of these works as diasporic literature, I seek to invest in the analysis, observations on how the narrative of these works invests in a valued identity of a black announcing self and of its black characters, in view of an image and self-evaluative identity construction. Along with this, ancestry permeates the entire discursive set of the work, both through elements that refer to the dialogue/alliance with ancestors, and through claims for new lives that can be lived. Thus, based on studies by Oliveira (2005). Regarding ancestry, I establish an investigative path in the three selected works in order to perceive convergences and divergences through the narrative addressed in each work, exhibiting experiences and the identity construction of a black corporeality as a value. In such a way, ancestry serves as a guiding thread to perceive and understand the trajectories and life stories of characters that seem to be confused with real stories. I believe that, based on the analysis, Conceição Evaristo allows us to establish a connection, both in her narrative permeated by dialogue or by her own ancestry, as well as an education of the gaze, of the sensitivity of her readers, an enchantment of the world in which ancestry is perceived/adhered to time in motion.