A “Senhora do reino encantado de Guimarães” e suas contemporâneas: Antropologia e Literatura na trajetória da escrita feminina negra na Amazônia do entresséculos XIX e XX

Abstract

The thesis The “Lady of the Enchanted Kingdom of Guimarães” and its contemporaries: Anthropology and Literature in the trajectory of black female writing in the Amazon region between the XIX and XX centuries intends to ethnographically reconstruct the literary, social and politic trajectory of female and black voices produced in Brazilian literature and, especially in the Amazon region between the XIX and XX centuries. To produce a web of relations where multivocality, that is, the multiple voices are put in evidence and, essentially, the voices silenced by a society built in the tripod of prejudice-racism-social discrimination. Through the dialog between anthropology and literature and by using ethnography as a theoretical-methodological conception that substantiates a type of “archaeology” of the knowledge on women who write and wrote and whose works remained shadowed by literary historiography. I believe that these questions are relevant in this context of intensification of the discussions around the construction of new power relations and the democratization of access to cultural property in Brazil. This way, we alsoface literature as a field of power, a space historically and socially built, where the publications and access were controlled by men, white and from privileged social groups. The thesis tracks a few of these female authors, whose names were, in certain moments, erased from official records, but whose writing remains registered in feuilletons, in loose publications, in journals, in published books. I will take into consideration their subjectivities, the trace of their existence in the world, or like Evaristo points out, whose write-living, or escrevivências, therefore, are for me subjects, from whom the thesis compiles and analyzes a slice of their life trajectories and literary production. Some authors were my companions in this attempt, among whom I mention: Lélia Gonzalez, Conceição Evaristo, Ângela Davis, bell hooks, Michele Perrot, Regina Dalcastagnè, Vicente Salles, Abdias do Nascimento, José Veríssimo, Aimé Cesairé, Frantz Fanon, George Balandier, Goldman, Pierre Bourdieu, J. Clifford, among others.