A "escrevivência" no conto Maria do Rosário Imaculada dos Santos de Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

Initiation Scholarships - PIBIC - 2023-2024 and aimed to analyze the short story Maria do Rosário Imaculada dos Santos, from the book Insubmissas Lágrimas de Mulheres (2011), by Conceição Evaristo, to understand the notion of “escrevivência” developed by the author and applied in her literary works. The main objective was to understand how Evaristo’s writing embodies the escrevivência as a form of resistance and social denunciation. Based on that, the study tried to understand how this literature connects to the issues of so-called “Black literature.” To that end, a bibliographic survey on this topic was carried out, in addition to an analytical reading of the short story, which addresses violence against Black women. The research undertaken was qualitative, including a survey and bibliographic review, analyzing critical texts and literary studies, based on authors such as Candido (1995), Cuti (2010), Bernd (1988; 2010), and Conceição Evaristo herself (2009; 2018). Through analytical reading, it was showed how the construction of the narratives expresses the notion of escrevivência presented by the author, which gives voice and life to Black female characters within the context of Brazilian social violence and inequality. The short story expresses escrevivência by transforming the Maria do Rosário’story into a literary expression of a collective memory marked by racism, psychological violence, and social erasure.