Vozes negras femininas nos contos olhos d'água de Conceição Evaristo: análise de uma escrita de testemunho sobre violências

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the voices of the female characters in “Olhos D’água”, “Maria”, “Duzu-Querença” from the book of short stories Olhos D’água (2016), by author Conceição Evaristo. The purpose is to reflect, based on the literary text, on situations of physical and social experiences experienced by these characters in these three short stories. In these narratives, the plot develops presenting fictional realities in which the characters are involved in worlds of oppression and racism, denounced through reactions to the provocations imposed by these fictional contexts. Evaristo, explores a writing of testimony by evoking his own memories as a black woman, born in a peripheral community in Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais. And for the analysis we intend to carry out, we will adopt authors as Ginzburg (2008), Oliveira (2018), Preto (2021) and Pinto-Bailey (2021).