Corpos de frutescências e a cor da pele de memórias: a poética negra de Conceição Evaristo em Poemas da recordação e outros movimentos

Abstract

In this study, we are dedicated to listening to the poetic word of Conceição Evaristo in her work Os poemas da recordação e outros movimentos (2017), interpreting and analyzing how her language is an essential saying that goes back to the sources of memory to call the presence of the black corporeal being, bringing it to mind, unveiling it in a poetic movement of existence and a recollecting logos. During this process of concentrated reminiscence, we turn our attention to the poetic creation and reflective thought produced by Conceição Evaristo, since both of his sayings think about black bodily life and the conditions of human existence. In this sense, when we examine his poetic composition and academic productions, we observe that the black body is present in his words. Thus, we try to analyze how she manifests himself in his poetry, verifying the senses of his living and experiences. These analyzes were interpreted based on the poetry studies discussed by Antonio Candido in his book Analytical study of the poem (2006), Erza Pound in ABC of Reading (2006), Octavio Paz in his work Signs in Rotation (2005), Alfredo Bosi in The Being and the time of poetry (1990) and Terry Eagleton in How to read a poem (2010). We approximated the interpretations of the selected poems with the thought of Merleau-Ponty, in particular, in the works Phenomenology of Perception (2006) and The Visible and the Invisible (2003), which comprehends the existence of the being, corporally, and also with the thought of Martin Heidegger in some of his texts presented in the book Essays and Conferences (2008a) and in his works, especially, On the way to Language (2003), Explanations of the poetry of Hö lderlin (2013) and Hölderlin Hymm (2004), who think of poetry as the original language of a people that institutes being, therefore, an essential language that brings to light the presence of black existence, thus constituting its memory. In addition, we find out how the organization and poetic production are, aiming to clarify the compositional structure of the work, as well as, we also seek to understand what it means for his poetry to be thought of in the sense of “remembrance and movements”. This long meditative path leads us to reflect on the relationship between this black bodies, the poetry and memory, noting that this interweaving moves an entire people to rescue themselves from inside the wreckage of a shipwreck and reconstitute themselves in an essential knowledge. Keywords: Conceição Evaristo; black corporeal being; poetry and memory; reminiscence and movements; poetry and thought.