Entre domesticídios e resistências: representações da mulher negra empregada doméstica.

Abstract

This thesis adopts a discursive approach that comprehends language as a social, historical and political process, based on Foucault's analysis of the knowledge-power truth dynamics in discourses. It also recognizes the practice of language as a factor that influences the processes of modernity/coloniality, as argued by Aníbal Quijano, in the representation of the Black woman domestic worker. The central question was: how are conceived the representations of Black Brazilian women domestic workers through language practices in the stories present in the book Eu, empregada doméstica: a senzala moderna é o quartinho da empregada (I, domestic worker: the modern slave quarters is the maid9s room)? The main aim is to understand how the representation of the Black Brazilian woman domestic worker subject is conceived through the practice of language in the stories of the book <I, domestic worker: the modern slave quarters is the maid9s room= (Rara, 2019). The specific aims were to analyze how the exercise of power, as well as racist and patriarchal practices, produce discourses of truth about being a Black woman domestic worker; to examine the intersection between race, gender and class in the representation of the Black woman domestic worker subject; to observe how the coloniality of power/knowledge/being and gender naturalizes representations that control knowledge, work, gender and the subjectivity of the Black woman domestic worker; to present how forms of dis-obedience, resistance and the process of symbolization characterize the Black woman domestic worker and its influence on the formation of subjectivities and truths attributed to these subjects in current times. The research is qualitative and documentary. The stories reveal the persistence of racism and the oppression of Black woman domestic workers, constituting domestic violence. However, the research identified resistance and re-existence (Souza, 2011), a process of reverse symbolization, which challenges the dominant narratives of subservience and inferiority. The representations of Black woman domestic workers can be understood from a decolonial perspective, exploring discourses that become visible due to the power relations intertwined with resistances and re-existences that permeate them. The stories can be seen as denunciations of the systemic structures of power and oppression, offering a critical and subversive view on the reality of domestic workers.