Sob o peso do próprio corpo: a representação da mulher negra nos contos "Maria" e "Rosa Maria Rosa", de Conceição Evaristo

Marcela Gizeli Batalini; Alba Krishna Topan Feldman

doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2017v33p18

Under the weight of their own bodies: representation of the black woman in Conceição Evaristo’s short stories “Maria” and “rosa Maria Rosa”

Authors

Marcela Gizeli Batalini Universidade Estadual de Maringá http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-1798
Alba Krishna Topan Feldman Universidade Estadual de Maringá https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4588-5661

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2017v33p18

Keywords:

Short stories, Conceição Evaristo, Representation, Black woman

Abstract

Little attention is given to the female authorship in Brazil, as well as the reduced number of black women characters, mainly as narrators or protagonists. This makes even more important short stories such as “Maria” and “Rosa Maria Rosa” from Conceição Evaristo’s short stories books, Olhos d’água (Watery eyes - 2014) and História de leves enganos e parecenças (History of small misleadings and similarities - 2016) respectively. Our objective is to analyze the female character in the short stories mentioned above, with special attention to the weight of their own bodies, that is, as black people and women, in a society still plenty of prejudice and discrimination. We observe that the writer, besides highlighting those individuals in the margins, also problematizes the construction of stereotypes that passed to the nation history, bringing to literature another point of view, and another perspective. The theoretical approaches that support this research are the studies by Ascroft, Griffiths & Tiffin (2007), Chandra Mohanty (2002) and Elizabeth Grosz (2000).

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Author Biographies

Marcela Gizeli Batalini, Universidade Estadual de Maringá

Master of Arts from the Universidade Estadual de Maringá. PhD in Literature and Literary Studies from the State University of Maringá. Adjunct professor at the Faculdade Alvorada de Tecnologia e Educação de Maringá/Faculdade Santa Maria da Glória.

Alba Krishna Topan Feldman, Universidade Estadual de Maringá

Master in Letters - Literary Studies at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá. PhD in Letters from Universidade Estadual Paulista and complementation at Louisville University. Professor at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá.

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2017-05-26

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Batalini, Marcela Gizeli, and Alba Krishna Topan Feldman. “Under the Weight of Their Own Bodies: Representation of the Black Woman in Conceição Evaristo’s Short Stories “Maria” and ‘rosa Maria Rosa’”. Terra Roxa E Outras Terras: Revista De Estudos Literários, vol. 33, May 2017, pp. 18-29, doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2017v33p18.

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