Banca de DEFESA: EMANUELLE CAJAZEIRA BISPO

SHATTERING THE MASK – VIOLENCE AND RESTORATION THROUGH THE WORKS OF CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO AND CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE

Key-words: Black-female literature; Female Authorship; Conceição Evaristo; Chimamanda Adichie.

This dissertation intends, from the theme of violence in the short story books Olhos d'água (2016) and No seu pescoço (2017), to discuss how the authors Conceição Evaristo and Chimamanda Adichie articulate an intellectual project that, through literature, intends to intervene in the social context in which they are inserted. To support this, in addition to contributions from black intellectuals from various fields of knowledge, based on theorists such as bell hooks (1995)(2019) and Patricia Hill Collins (2019), we think about the constructions prior to the writing of black women, especially in parallel some definitions of black feminism that relate to the processes of self-definition and self-recovery and with the theoretical contributions of the subjects of this research, we think the literary text as a space that (re)creates other fictional possibilities for characters-black women. In addition, we think about how the body of black women is inserted in an anti-black society and how it resists and creates other alternatives of being. Violence was analyzed in an intersectional perspective and the approximation between the writers, considering their countless differences, was thought from the concept of escrevivência, by Evaristo (2020), focusing on the scenes of violence presented by the characters in the chosen short stories.