Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: FLORENCE FRANCA SOUTELO MARRA
Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.STUDENT : FLORENCE FRANCA SOUTELO MARRA
DATE: 27/05/2026
TIME: 16:00
LOCAL: Virtual
TITLE:
Bodies That Preserve Memory: Ancestry, Escrevivência and Resistance in the Short Stories of Conceição Evaristo
KEY WORDS:
Conceição Evaristo; ancestry; escrevivência; memory; Afro-Brazilian literature.
PAGES: 18
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:
This research investigates how memory, ancestry and escrevivência are articulated in the narrative construction of the short stories Ayoluwa, a alegria do nosso povo, Fios de ouro, Macabéa: Flor de Mulungu and Não me deixe dormir o profundo do sono, by Conceição Evaristo. Based on a qualitative, interpretative and bibliographical approach, the study seeks to understand how ancestry operates not only as a recurring theme, but also as an aesthetic, political and epistemological principle capable of reorganizing Black female experiences marked by historical processes of erasure, violence and resistance. The research is grounded in Conceição Evaristo’s reflections on escrevivência, as well as in the theoretical contributions of Leda Maria Martins, Lélia Gonzalez, Ochy Curiel and bell hooks, articulating discussions on memory, ancestry, female genealogies, spirituality, skin-memory and decolonial perspectives. In the analyzed short stories, Black women’s bodies become spaces for the inscription of collective memory and ancestral permanence, while dreams, spirituality, the uncanny and the fantastic challenge rationalist and Eurocentric models of representation. Thus, Conceição Evaristo’s writing is understood as a practice of resistance that reinscribes Black women into spaces of belonging, continuity and narrative power, transforming literature into a territory of memory, care and ancestral permanence.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ALINE ALVES ARRUDA
Interna - CLÁUDIA CRISTINA MAIA
Presidente - MARIA DO ROSARIO ALVES PEREIRA