SUBSERVIENCE AND SERVILISM: MAINTENANCE OF SUBALTERNITY AND ANTI-RACIST PERSPECTIVES IN SOLITÁRIA, BY ELIANA ALVES CRUZ
Alexandra
Alves da Silva
Master's student in Comparative Literature (UERJ -
FFP). She has been working in basic education since 2001, as a teacher of
Portuguese, Literature and Writing in primary and secondary education (private
network). She is a member of the research group GEFIS (Group of Feminist and
Intersectional Studies) of CNPq (PPLIN/ UERJ-FFP). Her research is centered on
systemic and decolonial violence by women. Lattes:
https://lattes.cnpq.br/7045452830200358. ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1287-0559. Email: prof.alexandra.ead@gmail.com.
ABSTRACT
The present work aims,
from the reading of the recently released novel Solitário, by Eliana Alves
Cruz, to promote some educational and anti-racist reflections inserted in the
work, representing the many black voices silenced by the work as a maid.
Bringing a literary comparison in this thematic clipping, the literature of
Conceição Evaristo (2020) will also be worked on throughout the text. In
addition to the novel's content being aligned with decolonial and
intersectional thinking, the
author's incursion into the verisimilar work is also significant, as she
appropriates a literature whose speech space denounces the permanence of
colonial practices as a strong political project. Under the theoretical support
of authors such as Beatriz Nascimento (2021), Françoise Vergès (2022), Lélia
Gonzalez (2020) and Sueli Carneiro (2011), I emphasize the idea that the
aforementioned novel challenges the maintenance of work slaves in Brazil, as as
well as investigating our own ancestry, the erased and/or silenced history and
the memory of enslaved Africans, rescuing what was lost in the process of
imposing colonialist power. Starting from events that recall recent Brazilian
issues, the stories of the women of Solitaire intertwine with ours, denouncing
the crimes committed against people of African descent: from slavery to the
present day.
Keywords: Intersectionality. Decolonialism. Female authority. Afro-Brazilian Literature. Feminist literary criticism.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
junho 11, 2023
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