Entre a Escrita Negra e a Escrita Feminina de Resistência à Escravidão From Black Writing to the Writing of Black Women’s Resistance to Slavery

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Abstract: The article discusses the relationship between black writing and black women's writing in Afro-American literature. In it, two narratives are collated to establish a dialogic approximation of the enslaved woman Linda Brent, the protagonist of the slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Salve Girl, Written by Herself, by Harriet Jacobs (1861) to the equally enslaved woman Sethe Suggs, the major character of the neo-slave narrative Beloved, by Toni Morrison (1987). The aspect that marks the dialogic content connecting the two narratives and the two women is the notion of political conversion, defined by West (1994) as an individual and collective movement from devastating nihilism, sponsored by slavery and its agents, to liberating self-love. In relation to Linda Brent and Sethe Suggs, individual and collective liberating self-love guarantees them escape from slavery to freedom through the political agency of black and white people.

Keywords: 1. Slave Narrative; 2. Nihilism; 3. Political Conversion.