Banca de DEFESA: SAMIRA SOARES SA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : SAMIRA SOARES SA
DATE: 22/07/2022
TIME: 15:30
LOCAL: ESPAÇO VIRTUAL
TITLE:

“It's like being part of the family”: Representations of the maids place in
texts by Conceição Evaristo, Clarice Lispector and Preta Rara.

KEY WORDS:

Domestic worker; Black writers; Black literature; Structural racism;

PAGES: 152
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Teoria Literária
SUMMARY:

This dissertation is the result of a study on the ways in which domestic workers are
represented in Brazilian Literature from a specific field of sampling, namely texts by the
authors Clarice Lispector and Conceição Evaristo. I invested in contrasting readings of short
stories from the book Olhos d'água (2017) and the novel Becos da Memória (2017), by
Conceição Evaristo, in contrast to selected chronicles by Clarice Lispector in A Descoberta do
Mundo (1973), as well as in the novel A Paixão Segundo G.H (2016). I sought to read the
authors in a timely manner, understanding the historical distance of about 40 years between
their texts, but also observing, through the book Eu empregada doméstica: a senzala moderna
é o quartinho de empregada (I Maid: the modern senzala is the maid's room) (2019), by Preta
Rara, that the subalternizing representations (SPIVAK, 2010; KILOMBA, 2019) that appear
in Lispector's texts remain in the imaginary and in the treatment practices in contemporary
Brazilian homes, notably, in the context of the emergence of a supremacist right. Based on the
structures of oppression discussed and updated by the literature, this dissertation aims to
highlight the importance of black female writers talking about domestic workers (COLLINS,
2019) and other socially exploited and invisible subjects, through a position that makes the
speeches of people audible. subalternized erasing (SOUZA, 2017), thus, the structuring part
of the representational canon of our Literature. By investing in the discussions undertaken
here, I presented some elements of the functioning of what I understand to be the gears of this
supremacist and colonial machine, which uses cultural, political and forms of socialization to
naturalize the subordination of subjects seen as minority, especially black women.
(CARNEIRO, 2005). The aforementioned machine is in practice in various objects of culture,
such as Literature, and in studies related to it, producing and reproducing the constant
reduction of subjects, placing black characters in roles of invisibility, subalternity and
marginality. In this study, Black Literature appears as a means of erasing the control images
(COLLINS, 2019) that prevail over our lives, pointing to structural racism (ALMEIDA, 2018)
as the limit of the so-called hegemonic literatures.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 3365799 - LIVIA MARIA NATALIA DE SOUZA SANTOS
Externa ao Programa - 1818425 - ANA LUCIA SILVA SOUZA
Externa à Instituição - FERNANDA FELISBERTO DA SILVA - UFRRJ