“Writing is Bleeding”: Reflections on Ancestry, Racism and Pain in Olhos d’Água by Conceição Evaristo

Authors

  • Natalino da Silva de Oliveira Instituto Federal do Sudeste de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.1.179-195

Keywords:

black people, memory, identity, nationality, Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'água

Abstract

This article’s objective is to analyze the short story Olhos d’água, by Conceição Evaristo, addressing issues of identity, ancestry and racism and their relations with the situation of black people in Brazil. In addition, it aims to demonstrate how the reflection on the incomplete nationality of the Brazilian negro develops itself, starting from the notions of history and ideology of progress in Benjamin, of laundering and racism in Fanon and of State of Exception in Agamben. Through a joint approach between theoretical texts and literary text, it sought to follow the traces of an identity formation, though rebuilt and fragmented. After all, would it be possible to build memory from shards and debris and then strengthen identity values?

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Author Biography

Natalino da Silva de Oliveira, Instituto Federal do Sudeste de Minas Gerais

Doutor em Literatura Comparada pela UFMG. Doutor em Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa pela PUC Minas. Mestre em Teoria da Literatura pela UFMG. Professor do IF Sudeste MG. Professor do Mestrado Profissional em Educação Profissional e Tecnológica.

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Published

2019-03-29

How to Cite

Oliveira, N. da S. de. (2019). “Writing is Bleeding”: Reflections on Ancestry, Racism and Pain in Olhos d’Água by Conceição Evaristo. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 29(1), 179–195. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.1.179-195

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 1 (2019): Da Palavra à Cena: Itinerários do Teatro no Ocidente

Section

Varia

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