A representação da maternidade em "Insubmissas lágrimas de mulheres", de Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

This academic work has as main objective to show that in the literature of Conceição Evaristo, there is a new look at maternity, stigmatized for a long time by the patriarchal culture, as something "Perfect". The definition of maternity depends on the implications and experiences of each woman, as mothers are the only ones capable of revealing what is really inside her. This new literary corpus presented by Conceição Evaristo, fills the absence that existed of the female voice in literature, specifically the voice of the woman / mother that in most literary writings is seen as an existent object only for the constitution of the identity of the other. Thus, in this new perspective the woman / mother ceases to be represented as a supporting actor and starts to act as the protagonist of her story.