O manhoso jeito de sentir as relações humanas: a contadora de histórias Conceição Evaristo em Histórias de leves enganos e parecenças

Abstract

The research focuses on the topic, The performative language of the narrator/teller present in the work Histórias de leves enganos e parecenças (2017), by Conceição Evaristo. Therefore, I justify my work based on the knowledge study of academic production related to the research object. The research seeks to achieve the general objective of articulating the aesthetics of the writing of the work Histórias de leves enganos e parecenças (2017) by Conceição Evaristo, with the ancient art of African storytellers. Thus, the specific objectives were limited to identifying the theme of the 12 short stories and the soap opera “Sabela”, interpreting the aesthetics of the written language of the narrator/storyteller present in the texts and, finally, verifying whether the author’s performative narration is relevant to the performance of an African storyteller. Methodologically, the research will have an exploratory and bibliographical perspective, with qualitative analysis of an interpretative nature, in order to understand the production processes chosen by the narrator/teller. From this position, to contemplate the discussions on Black Literature will be the notes of the contemporary black intellectual Luiz Silva (2010), also known by the pseudonym Cuti, and Florentina da Silva Souza (2021), professor at the Federal University of Bahia. For reflections on resistance, the studies will be based on Édouard Glissant (2005), with his insights into a poetics of diversity; Maria Beatriz Nascimento (1994) with the quilombo as a point of resistance to the slavery system, and the writer Conceição Evaristo (2020), with her poetic production. In this direction, we have the cooperation of Edmilson de Almeida Pereira (2010), with studies on poetry and social demands in Brazil. In addition to this theoretical contribution, the study will draw on the writing aesthetics chosen and defined by Conceição Evaristo (2020) called Escrevivência and the theory of animistic realism (2020) with the research of poetry writer Harry Garuba (2012) and researcher Silvio Ruiz Paradiso (2020). To this end, it is possible to infer that the expected results are that through her writing aesthetics, the writer Conceição Evaristo, endowed with wisdom when using storytelling techniques, contribute to enhancing black identities and combating the cultural silencing imposed on black people. Given the above, opting for a writer who inspires resistance and dresses in struggle, like Conceição Evaristo, is to join hands with a black-feminine writing that transforms literary texts into speeches of collective representativeness of resistance.