Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LARISSA REJANE SILVA BRITO

BODY, VOICE AND MEMORY: ancestral African values in black women’s literature in Brazil

BODY. VOICE. LITERATURE. ANCESTRAL VALUES. BLACK WOMEN.

This research starts from the perspective of an Afro-centered study, which outlines the reflection regarding the theoretical foundation and the methodology followed with regard to the investigation of the object - literary corpus, that is, literature produced by black women in Brazil with an important point of interrelationship, the transmission of values African ancestors in diaspora. We seek to identify these values, their meanings in the context of the history of black people in contemporary Brazil, discussing the effects of meaning that the literature of these women can produce in the black community. The work is structured by three chapters to achieve the objectives - general: to analyze how African ancestral civilizational values are disseminated and preserved in the narratives of black women in Brazil; - specific: identify in the productions of black women in Brazil, African civilizational values as part of the cultural heritage of black generations in the country; distinguish the aesthetic-literary resources of inclusion and mobilization of African ancestral values in the process of constructing the narrative of the focused authors and. from the survey regarding the aesthetic-literary resources in the inclusion of ancestral values, demonstrate the dynamicity of the effects of meanings of these inclusions for the understanding of the matrilineal universe and its action in the black Brazilian diaspora.