Literatura, gênero e raça: escritoras negras no campo literário brasileiro

Abstract

This work intends to discuss the insertion of black female in the production’s space of contemporary brazilian literature. For that, the trajectories (social and literary) and the fictional texts of Ana Maria Gonçalves (1979/MG), Conceição Evaristo (1946/MG) and Geni Guimarães (1947/SP) were selected. The study of this itinerary was considered pertinent because of the relatively consoled career, albeit in a marginal position in the literature field, with the questioned legitimacy. The main issue is: how have been possible the insertion and construction of the black female writers’ presence in a markedly androcentric space and with a white race homogeneity? The mobilization of the notions of gender and race combined with that of field allowed to adequately situate the positions of black female writers in relation to the other social agents of this space of production of culture. The aim is to shed light on the trumps and strategies that dynamize literary struggles for power, distinction and social prestige. To understand competition for space and legitimacy.