Discursos que destoam: relações de poder e resistência na literatura feminina negra

Abstract

The nineteenth and twentieth centuries are interesting moments of disclosure of the situation of women in Brazilian society and hence the beginning of claims by feminists for social recognition and guarantee of access to areas hitherto reserved to men. However, other voices engaged in the same struggle suffered and still suffer the silencing of his speeches, bestowed the power of a prejudiced and phallocentric society. The black woman, recognizing the power relations that determine this silencing and decides to lord it over the pen and sign up on the story, as an individual capable of thinking about her experiences and actions. This text is intended to investigate the relations of power that attempt to influence how the expression of black women's literature is perceived / conceived and how women / black women writers have countered such views.