The Written Escape of Conceição Evaristo: Afro-Brazilian Literature as a Strategy of Survival and Emancipation for the Negro

Abstract

In this paper I intend to examine the functionality of the Afro-Brazilian literature, since it undertakes, almost exclusively, the development of counter-discourse of the canonical literature, which has always focused on keeping only the truths of a homogeneous male, white and Western group, leaving the black, in this sense, only in the condition of eternal slavery, alienation, such as livestock. The intention is to set parallels regarding the two issues that constitute the problematization on picturing the black: the way they are seen by the canons of our literature, or as objects of a writing, and his entry while subject of his writing. In a work of construction and reconstruction, this literature together with the writer Conceição Evaristo bring out the true identity and subjectivity of black, mainly through the memory of an experience. While integrating Afro-Brazilian literature to the national literature, identifying it as a generator of unique identity and translator of a writing which distinguishes itself among Brazilian literature, the goal is to free the image of the negro, always kept to the bottom level of canonic representations.