Considerações teórico-conceituais inerentes à escrevivência evaristiana em Becos da Memória (2017)

Abstract

Between 1994 and 1995, the writer Conceição Evaristo, author of notorious works in contemporary literature, such as: Ponciá Vicencio (2003); Olhos d’agua (2014); Insubmissas marcas de mulheres (2012); História de leves enganos e parecenças (2016) and others, pronounced the expression writingvivência, assigning it the task of naming her critical-literary writing project. However, years later, through the author's own exercise and that of other researchers curious about the meaning of the concept, the expression has been used in different areas of human knowledge, expanding its senses and meanings. Thus, the main objective of this work was the theoretical and conceptual deepening of the notion of writingvivência, illustrating it from the novel Becos da Memória (2017) in which, to achieve it, we conducted bibliographic and documentary research, whose approach was essentially qualitative. Considering the background for the creation of this expression is the image of the mucambas forcibly exercising activities considered subordinate and pointed out by their masters, to better understand it, it was necessary to articulate this concept with literature and history, especially in terms of the formation of black people in Brazil, as well as how they are represented in fiction - in this case, literature. This study was organized in three chapters, sequentially arranged: 1. Escre(viver): escrita, história e vivência; 2. Becos da memória (2017): abrigo das escrevivências subalternas; 3. Das acontecências do banzo – uma incursão histórica afrodescendente na escrevivência de Conceição Evaristo in which, through the discussions undertaken in them, the notion of writingvivência is understood as a concept strongly imbricated in history and that is proposed, initially, with the intention of blurring the colonial past around black women who had their powers pruned. However, although it was originally born in the cradle of literature and history, this concept has not been limited to both mentioned areas and, therefore, has become amenable to other directions in fields such as photography, music, pedagogy, and social psychology. In addition, in the realm of literature, Conceição Evaristo writingvivência, as a form of writing in which fiction and reality are intertwined, is constructed from socially complex themes and characters long made invisible by literature in the large centers, what places the author's writing project as a production that decentralizes the colonial forces still at work in various areas of society and focuses them in the construction of an effective history from afro-brazilian perspectives and perceptions, where realities are unveiled that were intentionally obstructed by history dictated as official and by the white elite that built it.