AND I’M NOT A WRITER?
Women's voices renaming places of existence
in Black female writing
Keywords: Contemporary literary scene, Black female authorship, non-specificity, expanded field of arts
This research discusses how Black women writers use various aesthetic techniques in the contemporary literary scene, through a practice of performative writing play, to build their literary projects that distance themselves from the canonical tradition and make connections with other artistic languages. To this end, I intend to analyze how these productions displace literary writing, seeking to circumvent, place into tension and subvert the spaces of invisibility and silencing historically imposed on these authors by a society shaped by colonial, patriarchal, misogynistic and racist systems. I will focus my analysis on the poetic projects of Bahian writers Deisiane Barbosa and Luciany Aparecida, whose literary commitments adopt aesthetics that are difficult to categorize, going beyond established limits and overflowing beyond themselves (Garramuño, 2014). These proposals challenge the canonical model of literature, provoke a suspension in reception and destabilize the role of criticism, which finds itself faced with works considered “strange fruits”, requiring different theoretical tools for their reading and interpretation. As a Black teacher-researcher, who is traversed by these subjectivities, I incorporate Evaristo's (2017) writing experience as a methodology, exploring an expanded writing experience with an autobiographical view for a better reading and understanding of these projects. To this end, I will establish dialogues with theories and critical thoughts that will help me analyze the selected corpus, including concepts from a diversity of intellectuals, such as performance and spiral time (Leda Maria Martins, 2021), non-specificity and expanded field of arts (Garramuño, 2014 ), memory (Kilomba, 2019), gender/race intersectionality (Santiago, 2012), Black feminisms (hooks, 2020), among others.