Desigualdades e reconhecimentos: memórias de uma escrita feminina e afro-brasileira

Abstract

The research presented is the fruit of an intense process of understanding the field of visibility versus invisibility. This contrastplaces the subject in a fierce struggle for recognition, and makes up a vast plot narrative. Narratives of suffered lives, lives that go unnoticed, such that even the status of citizen is denied to these individuals. The poetic political cry of Conceição Evaristo, through her protagonist, Poncia Vicencio, takes on these impressions, these unheard, silenced voices of black women. Theobjective is to understand how this method sought by marginalized persons and how one processes this fight of a protagonist that is also a collective fight. The first chapter brings to light reflections about social recognition, bringing up to date once againthe Hegelian concept and presents perpectives such as those Axel Honneth and Jesse Souza. This first part also gives prominence to authors who experienced lack of recognition, whose sayings were blocked off from mainstream Brazilian literature. The second chapter, in turn, aims to contextualize and illustrate the discussion, as well as present fragments that support this analysis. Discoveries, through the memories of the writer, Conceição Evaristo, allow for the narration of the story of her people, the recuperation of African roots and the desire for paths other than submission and colonial exploitation. In this way, it is now possible to think through these Arendtian words (take action), to build another perspective of recognition, whichbrings order to the third chapter. In this direction, we observe that modern day malaise is accompanied by the acceleration of time, the brutalization of everyday life and the enhancement of processes of social (in)visibility. This is a time without experience , without memory, empty and distant from all creative acts. Emphasizing once again that recognition implies ethical responsibility to the world, which implies responsibility to others. This achievement takes place by means of art. The clay art of Poncia and the life-based writings of Evaristo enable the valuation of different subjects that make up the public sphere of social relations. This study raises similar reflections through bibliographic and documentary research, as shown below.