O CORPO FALA EM “LUAMANDA”, “ANA DAVENGA” E “DUZU-QUERENÇA”, DE CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO

Abstract

This study develops reflections about the discourse of the body in three short stories by Conceicao Evaristo: “Luamanda”, “Ana Davenga” e “Duzu-Querenca”. The centrality of the black woman’s body in Evaristo’s work emerge as a conter-discuourse against logocentric dualism that engendered the connection of patriarcal witeness to the mind and blackness and feminity to the body, understandind that black womem are indisposed to intelectual work and to (self) reflection. Evaristo’s caracters show that descolonizind mind and body are equivalente and black women who suffer the trauma of racismo anda sexism usually elaborate contradiscurive outlets from their own body that, previously expropirated and controlled, acquires autonomy and undergoes reconfigurations. The theoretical suport that guides such readings are bell hooks (1995), Lelia Gonzalez (1984), Djamila Ribeiro (2019), G. Spivak (2010) e Michelle Perrot (2003).