Arquivos Afro-diaspóricos: a voz do enigma na literatura negra-feminina brasileira

Abstract

Based on Alice Walker's reflection, about the need for the intellectual black person to be doubly prepared, as “there is not only a new world to be conquered, there is an old world to be claimed”, I think about the construction of the Afro-Diasporic archives in the Black Brazilian Literature, especially that produced by female authors. I choose two works that give an image of these archives: the short story “Exu e a lagartixa”, by Mãe Beata de Yemojá, from the book Caroço de Dendê (1997) and the poem “Vozes-mulheres”, by Conceição Evaristo, from the book Poemas da recordação e outros movimentos (2008). In dialogue with the thought of Sueli Carneiro, Lélia Gonzales, Luis Rufino and Achille Mbembe, I deal with the characteristics and modes of construction of these anti-racist archives, which are guided by non-white and non-Eurocentered epistemes, and how Black Female Brazilian Literature has contributed to the restitution of presences, vibrations and traces. In this sense, the voice translated into writing is found to be the founder.