Black women's writing: contributions to the literary, feminist and gender studies.

This work is a reflection on black women’s writing, which has been and yet, sometimes, is marginalized and reduced to invisibly in our literary field due to several factors . Therefore, it becomes important to give visibility to this writing so as to discuss the marks of feminism, race and gender that it brings, showing its contributions for the construction of a new and empowered discourse on black women, which represents a differential for literary discourse and affects the canon, since it t promotes the construction of a new perspective, a differentiated representation of black women, emphasizing their forms of struggle and resistance, front the exclusionary sociocultural systems.  In order to do that, I bring up some theoretical voices such as that, of Guacira Lopes Louro (1997); Abdias do Nascimento (2000); Tatau Godinho (2008), among others that deal with the theme, as well as texts written by  black women writers such as Alzira Rufino, Esmeralda Ribeiro e Cristiane Sobral to argue and think about a literature that deals with black women autonomy,  and challenges the dominant power systems, a literature that gives emphasis to women and ethnic-racial issues from perspective of the black person herself , since this project was relegated to oblivion for too long or portrayed in as stereotyped way by other voices, other discourses guided by a masculine and eurocentric bias. In this way, we hope to show how it is relevant to black women's literature, because makes us reflect and face the mechanisms of oppression, subalternization against women, especially black women, and race and gender prejudice, and its effects, that still can be seen daily in different social and cultural contexts.  

A CONSTRUÇÃO DO FEMININO EM “OLHOS D’ÁGUA”, DE CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO: UMA ANÁLISE DE PERFORMANCES PÓS-IDENTITÁRIAS DE GÊNERO

A literatura afrofeminina sempre esteve à margem do cânone literário, identificando-se com a literatura “subalterna” excluída pela Tradição, ou seja, o “pensamento heterossexual” (WITTING, 2006) que silencia os grupos marginalizados e não-canônicos, a saber: mulheres, negros, homossexuais, entre outros que não correspondem ao modelo heterossexual-ocidental, representado pela branquitude. Dessa forma, analisar a obra “Olhos d’água”, de Conceição Evaristo, serve de mecanismo para desconstrução e desnormatização da análise literária clássica. A obra de Evaristo é considerada, além de seu destaque literário, como um instrumento de luta da literatura de autoria feminina e negra, dando voz às denúncias da opressão e da violência. Objetivamos com o nosso trabalho problematizar outras óticas do texto com base na análise discursivo-social das personagens femininas da obra de Conceição Evaristo. Através dessa análise podemos interrogar os lugares e a representação de valoração das práticas culturais não-hegemônicas, a fim de perverter a ordem patriarcal heteronormativa e legitimar a estética literária, “desmantelando” a naturalização da violência contra as mulheres negras e pobres.

Children's Literature and Brazilian identity of black children

This article aims to analyze how the black child is characterized in relation to the stereotypes created around the black, in the course of Brazilian history in children's narratives, from a sociological approach to the literary text and the assumptions of comparative literature. To this end, we selected some childish narratives that feature characters black children, and you can see that these works reveal the transformations that occurred in Brazilian society with regard to black. This work is based on the theoretical support in the works of Rosangela Malachias and Florestan Fernandes, among others. The analysis was organized to observe the difficulties of identifying the black child before the European cultural dictates about the standard model of beauty. In general, one can observe that the production of works whose characters are black children intensified after the 1988 Constitution and the Law 10.639/2003. The literary discourse aimed at children, so undergoes changes before changes in society and shows a new socio-historical context in which minorities gain more space, but respect for differences yet to occur effectively in social relations that the black is really valued.

Letramentos e Etnografias na Escola: Diálogos Inter/Transculturais na Educação Antirracismo

Neste artigo, descrevemos e refletimos sobre experiências de pesquisa e formação de professoras e professores  indígenas e afro-brasileiros, com foco nos seus múltiplos letramentos,   no sentido de contribuir para a  inclusão da história e cultura afro-brasileira, africana e indígena na educação formal, como estabelecem as Leis 10.639/03 e 11.645/08.  Através dessa reflexão, estabelecemos diálogos com autores (as) que versam sobre educação para relações étnico-raciais, linguística aplicada, letramento e literatura negra, tendo em vista a proposição de ações direcionadas por uma educação antirracismo.