Do TEAR da escrevivência as Letras da resistência: a memória como fio condutor de representação e valorização da experiência feminina em Olhos D’água, de Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

Based on the studies of Conceição Evaristo (2007, 2017, 2020), Paul Ricoeur (2007), Maurice Halbwachs (2006), and the intersectionality theorists Kimberlé Crenshaw (1990, 2002), Lélia Gonzalez (1988), and Djamila Ribeiro (2016), this work investigates how "escrevivência" (a term coined by Evaristo) constitutes a literary and political practice in the work Olhos D’Água. The research analyzes how the concept of "escrevivência," formulated by Evaristo since 1995, articulates writing, memory, and ancestry as a form of resistance against the historical processes of silencing that affect Black women. Grounded in a bibliographic methodology, the study discusses memory as an ethical and political gesture (Ricoeur, 2007) and as a collective construction (Halbwachs, 2006), relating it to female subjectivities marked by racial, gender, and class violence. The analysis indicates that the Black female characters in the work demonstrate experiences of exclusion, pain, and struggle, but also of agency and identity reconstruction, reaffirming that writing from lived experience allows for the transformation of individual experiences into a collective narrative. The results indicate that Evaristo repositions the Black woman as a subject of speech, memory, and resistance, contributing to broadening the representation of the Afro-Brazilian female experience in contemporary literature