Olhos D'Água, Cuerpos en el MundoLa Literatura de Conceição Evaristo para la Reinvención de la Historia

Abstract

This research proposes an analysis of the literary tale Olhos D'Água, from the homonymous book written by Conceição Evaristo (2016). A great exponent of contemporary Brazilian literature, Evaristo demarcates in her works the multiple social issues that affect the population of Afro-Brazilian origin and, through her writing, tries to rescue the valorisation of the Afro-Diasporic culture and ancestrality. The tale is a narrative intensely marked by an enquiry, which resorts to experiences accentuated by the dimensions of race, class and gender, about the forgotten colour of the narrator's and protagonist's maternal eyes. The text evokes elements that link black-Brazilian literature to a fictional memory, to the Yorubá mythology and to a counter-hegemonic perspective around the socio-historical condition of black women's existences in Brazil. Fragments of the tale allow an analysis full of correlations with the psychoanalytical theory and a Brazilian social, historical and cultural elaboration to think about the context reflected in Conceição Evaristo's work, her poetics and her method of escrevivência. For this purpose, the theoretical approaches of Lélia Gonzalez, Rita Segato, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, as well as a series of thinkers on culture, history and society in Brazil, will be discussed in this research.