NOVELS BY BLACK FEMALE AUTHORS IN BRAZIL: editing, authorship and construction of the protagonists (2003 – 2020)
Novels by black female authors; intersectionality; literary field; decoloniality; Representativeness.
Starting from the absences, invisibilities and stereotypes, noticeable in the characters of contemporary novels in Brazil, especially with regard to historically excluded groups, this work seeks to map the protagonists of women's novels published between 2003 and 2020. Anchored by the decolonial perspective, it was observed how black women writers break the barriers of the editorial field, and the various intersectionalities that cross them, to create the protagonists of their works. Thus, in a qualitative and quantitative analysis, it will be examined how representativeness is composed in the face of the particular narrative structure of black female writing.