Banca de DEFESA: ELIANA SILVA DOS SANTOS

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ELIANA SILVA DOS SANTOS
DATE: 12/12/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Zoom
TITLE:

Death and ancestrality in O crime do Cais do Valongo

KEY WORDS:

Black Female Literature; Valongo Wharf Crime; Ancestry.

PAGES: 106
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
SUMMARY:

The work 'O crime do Cais do Valongo' (2018), by Eliana Alves Cruz, constitutes an essential narrative for us to rethink the Brazilian slave society and, mainly, the customs and cultures of the people who came to Brazil in the condition of slavery. The writer and thinkers built a polyphonic text that questions Brazilian discursivity about slavery, assigning voice and the possibility of composing historical subjectivities in a historical narrative in which one crime determines others. One of the proposals ofthis work is questionable as the relationship between death and ancestry for Africans and what these elements do for those who died while still on the slave ship or when they arrived in the
port region of Valongo, in Rio de Janeiro, the so-called new blacks. Furthermore, it is essential to point out the contemporary contributions of ancestry to the different narratives
of the black population and their way of life, considering the ancestral Afro-diasporic cult
of Egúngún as a strong manifestation of African cultural resistance in the diaspora. Thus,
from the highlights, it is possible to consider a semantic operator of resistance, having the
cult of ancestors as a vehicle for the continuity of vital cycles for the black population
outside Africa. The numberof black people that are killed in caring communities
increases, reinforcing the social fetish for current research, the connection also with the
necropolitical research of the State and the physical communities of these people. It is
alsohighlightedthe role of black women's narratives in the constitution of the cultural
crossroads present in women's writing inMaria Firmina, Carolina Maria de Jesus,
Conceição Evaristo, Ana Maria Gonçalves e Eliana Alves Cruz.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 3414388 - JOSE HENRIQUE DE FREITAS SANTOS
Interna - 1064696 - ALVANITA ALMEIDA SANTOS
Externa à Instituição - ANA RITA SANTIAGO DA SILVA - UFRB