Ponciá Vicêncio e Becos da memória: memória e olhar coletivo na prosa afro-brasileira

Aline Alves Arruda

doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2009v17p77

Ponciá Vicêncio and Becos da Memória: the collective memory and the collective looking on afrobrazilian prose of fiction

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Aline Alves Arruda Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8760-9614

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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2009v17p77

Keywords:

Identity, Collective memory, Diaspora, Afro-Brazilian literature

Abstract

I will deal with the collective memory in Conceição Evaristo’s novels Ponciá Vicêncio and Becos da Memória. The author’s Afro-descendant gaze assures to us through the characters’ story the importance of this aspect on Afro-Brazilian authors’ texts. According to Ricouer (2000), memory is built as an identity criterion and it serves to the latter. Our Afro-Brazilian authors confirm, therefore, a new thinking about the Black Diaspora and they bring marks of this collective looking to their literature. Those marks are to the writers a kind of mover to their narrative or poetry.

Author Biography

Aline Alves Arruda, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Master of Arts from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

References

BARBOSA, Maria José Somerlate. 2003. Prefácio. Conceição Evaristo. Ponciá Vicêncio. Belo Horizonte: Mazza. 5-8.

EVARISTO, Conceição. 1996. Literatura negra: uma poética de nossa afro-brasilidade. Diss. Mestrado em Literatura Brasileira – Departamento de Letras, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro.

EVARISTO, Conceição. 2003. Ponciá Vicêncio. Belo Horizonte: Mazza, 2003.

EVARISTO, Conceição. 2006. Becos da Memória. Belo Horizonte: Mazza, 2006.

PATTERSON, Orlando. 1982. Slavery and social death: a comparative study. Cambridge: Harvard U P.

RICOEUR, Paul. 2000. La memoria, la historia, el olvido. Buenos Aires: Éditions du Seuil.

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2009-12-30

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Arruda, Aline Alves. “Ponciá Vicêncio and Becos Da Memória: The Collective Memory and the Collective Looking on Afrobrazilian Prose of Fiction”. Terra Roxa E Outras Terras: Revista De Estudos Literários, vol. 17, no. 2, Dec. 2009, pp. 77-84, doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2009v17p77.

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Vol. 17 No. 2: Literatura afro-brasileira (prosa de ficção)

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