Abstract

COSTA, Sheryl Andreatta da  and  HILLESHEIM, Betina. Being a Black Woman: Existence and Resistance in Conceição Evaristo's Short Stories. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.2, pp.505-522.  Epub May 03, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.68633.

This article proposes a discussion based on the short stories of Insubmissas Lágrimas de Mulheres (Insubmissive Tears of Women, 2016), written by Conceição Evaristo, about depictions of possible modes of existence as well moments of resistance in its women protagonists’ lives: Isaltina Campo Belo, Shirley Paixão, Lia Gabriel and Maria do Rosário Imaculada dos Santos. The short stories were chosen by identifying, through protagonists’ narratives voices, the remembrance of experiences tackling various forms of violences within

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vulnerability contexts. Though these narratives of escrevivência, as named by Evaristo, which grants us access to fictionalized real-life experiences of poor and black women from outlying ghettos that are silenced in Brazilian daily life, we discuss these women’s ways of being in the face of vulnerable conditions and exposure to violence. Furthermore, this article comprehended that such modes of subjectivation do not refer exclusively to subjection and silencing, but also to practices of freedom and movements of resistance. Thus, the narratives called out these women’s vulnerability as much as it also distances them from the stigmatization of their existences, affirming the singularity of these individual lives and their confrontation of violent situations.

Keywords : vulnerability; violence; resistance; black women..

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