Escrevivência as a methodology of resistance: Black narratives and the production of counter-hegemonic memory

Abstract

This article proposes a critical reflection on escrevivência as a methodological, epistemic, and political tool for producing counter-hegemonic memory, grounded in the critique of modern science and the appreciation of embodied and situated epistemologies. Escrevivência, as understood by Conceição Evaristo, is adopted here as a methodological and epistemic tool that allows the reinscription of Black women’s experience in the production of knowledge. Drawing on authors such as Sueli Carneiro, Grada Kilomba, Patricia Hill Collins, and bell hooks, the article argues that writing the self, anchored in experience, constitutes an act of resistance and denunciation against epistemicide, as well as a means to reconfigure collective memory and affirm situated knowledges. It concludes that escrevivência, by breaking with the neutrality of hegemonic science, expands the possibilities of qualitative research committed to epistemic justice and to valuing the voices of Black women.