NO CRUZAMENTO DAS AVENIDAS IDENTITÁRIAS: UMA ANÁLISE INTERSECCIONAL DE CONTOS DAS ESCRITORAS CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO E MIRIAM ALVES

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the intersections of race/color, gender, class and sexual orientation in narratives of Conceição Evaristo and Miriam Alves. For that, we compare the short stories “Olhos verdes de Esmeralda” and “Beijo na face”, in addition to “Maria” and “Cinco cartas para Rael”. The short stories analyzed here were extracted from the books: Olhos D’água (2015), from Conceição Evaristo, and Mulher Mat(r)iz (2011), from Miriam Alves. The theorical contribution drawn on this work is from the book Interseccionalidade (2019), from the researcher Carla Akotirene who is from Bahia, and from the work Memória de Plantação (2019) from the portuguese theorist Grada Kilomba. We understand, through the intersectionality, that different types of oppressions surround and cross the studied characters of these narratives. We observe, besides that, that the four short stories analyzed bring black women as protagonists. So, we can prove that black women are part from a more vulnerable and susceptible group to have their bodies violated. We conclude, then, that the race violence is related, in its majority, to the gender, class, or sex orientation violence. That occurs because current society still maintains racists and patriarchal behaviors, contributing, in this way, to the maintenance of a colonial oppression’s matrix.