Olhos d'água de Conceição Evaristo: memória e ancestralidade para agência do feminino negro

Abstract

In this work, it is intended to analyze how the process of construction of positive representation for the black female takes place in the contemporary work Olhos d'água, by Conceição Evaristo, realizing how the aesthetic project constructed by the writer, designs and implements the agency of a black literature , and also how, from the memory and cosmogonic ancestry of Yorubá, the author enables and enhances the humanization of black characters, mobilizing feelings of identity and belonging. Furthermore, it is intended to understand how the poetic brutalism placed in the narrative acts in order to humanize the black characters and not just objectify and treat black bodies as statistics. What can be seen from the analysis shared here is that the link between memory and ancestry represents part of an aesthetic project proposed by Conceição Evaristo, a project marked by Escrevivência, which seeks the artistic promotion of location, centrality and black agency. It is also observed that, metaphorically, our stamp of existence is colored by the threads of memory-culture that are made possible by the processes of dissimulation and assimilation that are witnessed and that, in addition to this archiving, the black-Brazilian bodies, in particular the female, from the movement in search of her ancestry, has reached a level of (re)weaving their identities and possible representations.