A poética do sangramento na representação feminina negra: diálogos decoloniais em Ponciá Vicêncio, de Conceição Evaristo e Sem Gentileza, de Futhi Ntshingila.

Abstract

The object of this thesis research is representation, black female protagonism and writing by female authors. Our general objective is to analyze black female representation from a decolonial epistemic perspective, based on the novels Ponciá Vicêncio (2003) by Conceição Evaristo and Sem Gentileza (2016) by Futhi Ntshingila, highlighting black female authorship and the protagonism of black women in contemporary black-Brazilian literature in dialogue with post-colonial South African literature. The specific objectives are i) Describe the contributions of the postulates of Afrocentricity to the understanding of the socio-historical bleedings applied to black subjects in Brazil and South Africa; ii) Point out elements that configure a poetics of bleeding from recurring forms of resistance in the writing of Conceição Evaristo and Futhi Ntshingila who do not succumb to the violence and invisibility imposed by Eurocentrism; iii) Analyze, from a decolonial perspective, how the after-effects of the violence suffered and remembered by the protagonists of the two novels become the emblem of a “poética do sangramento”. Then, black protagonism, violence against women and black female authorship are the categories of analysis considered in this research. From a theoretical- methodological point of view, this is basic research, preceded by an analytical literature review. Starting from an intrinsic-critical analysis with a phenomenological focus, we intend to outline, from an intersectional perspective, the ways in which Evaristo and Ntshingila describe violence against black women in their works in both the black-Brazilian and South African contexts. In this sense, we seek to make an academic-scientific contribution by proposing a conceptual category that we call “Poética do Sangramento” to compose the analyses in a decolonial aesthetic. With this, we anchor this research in the reflections of theorists and scholars such as: Asante (2009, 2014), Boahen (2010), Mazrui (2010), Bourdieu (2021), Biko (1990), Césaire (2020), Cuti (2010), Du Bois (1998), Fanon (2008; 2022), Hudson-Weems (2004), M' Bokolo (2011), Memmi (2021), Pereira (2012), Saffiotti (2004; 2013), Spivak (2010), Collins (2019; 2020; 2022), Ngomane (2022), among others. Thus, based on the novels Ponciá Vicêncio (2003), by Conceição Evaristo and Sem Gentileza (2016), by Futhi Ntshingila, we conclude that this corpus is an instrument for the visibility of a black-literary canon and, above all, re-signifies black female representation and protagonism, which emerges as 'agency' (Asante, 2009) in the poetic weavings of female authorship, reiterating decolonial dialogues in an intersectional collectivity of black women writers in continuous becoming-black women.