CONTEMPORARY BLACK WOMEN'S WRITINGS IN THE U.S. AND BRAZIL: POSSIBLE ARTICULATIONS ACROSS THE DIASPORA/A LITERATURA CONTEMPORANEA DE MULHERES NEGRAS NOS ESTADOS UNIDOS E NO BRASIL: POSSIVEIS ARTICULACOES DIASPORICAS

This essay aims at delineating a panoramic analysis of contemporary black women's writings in the U.S. and Brazil in order to examine how these writings establish a dialogic relationship with each other across the diasporic space in the Americas. Taking on Brent Edwards conceptualizations of di...

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Veröffentlicht in:Revista Ártemis (João Pessoa) 2015-08, Vol.20 (1), p.117
1. Verfasser: De Araujo, Flavia Santos
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Zusammenfassung:This essay aims at delineating a panoramic analysis of contemporary black women's writings in the U.S. and Brazil in order to examine how these writings establish a dialogic relationship with each other across the diasporic space in the Americas. Taking on Brent Edwards conceptualizations of diaspora (2003), I will argue that contemporary Afro-Brazilian and U.S. Afro- American women writers re-write the black female body into literary representations of multi-layered racial, gender and sexual discourses. Read against and with each other, their writings contribute to re-elaborate universalizing notions of selfhood and the complexities of subjectivity, while retaining a sense of cultural and historical specificity. Within a comparative and transnational approach, this essay will discuss some of the writings by Conceicao Evaristo, Miriam Alves, Esmeralda Ribeiro, Cristiane Sobral, and Elisa Lucinda (Brazil); as well as some of the works by Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, and Danzy Senna (U.S.), among others. Key-words: Black women. Contemporary literature. African Diaspora. Black female body Este artigo pretende apresentar uma analise panoramica da escrita de mulheres negras dos E.U.A. e do Brasil, examinando como estes escritos estabelecem uma relacao dialogica entre si no espaco diasporico das Americas. A partir das consideracOes acerca da diaspora feitas por Brent Edwards (2003), argumentarei que as escritoras contemporaneas Afro-Brasileiras e Afro- Estadunidenses re-escrevem o corpo da mulher negra segundo representacOes literarias multi-facetadas nas intersecOes dos discursos de raca, genero, e sexualidade. Lidos lado a lado, seus projetos literarios contribuem para a reelaboracao de ideias unlversalizantes sobre o "eu" e as complexidades da subjetividade em relacao ao sujeito feminino negro, ao mesmo tempo em que retem suas especificidades historicas e culturais. Atraves de um olhar comparativo e trasnacional, este artigo debruca-se sobre algumas das obras literarias de escritoras como Conceicao Evaristo, Miriam Alves, Esmeralda Ribeiro, Cristiane Sobral, e Elisa Lucinda (Brasil); e tambem, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, e Danzy Senna (E.U.A..), dentre outras. Palavras-chave: Mulheres negras. Literatura contemporanea. Diaspora Africana. Corpo feminino negro.
ISSN:1807-8214
DOI:10.15668/1807-8214/artemis.v20n2p117-127