WRITING AS A PROCESS OF FREEDOM AND REWRITTEN LIFE

Abstract

This article is in tune with the desire that, within Brazilian classrooms, black people, especially girls and women, are not treated simply as an objectified and erased part of a racist historical narrative, with a modern-colonial ideological basis. We share critical reflections on the construction of writing as an act of resistance, as a liberating and revolutionary gesture of writing, which deals with minorities and for minorities, with the aim of focusing on the protagonism of black women, for their stories and achievements. . The central objective is to analyze the critical ethnographic perspective of one of Conceição Evaristo’s works, a book of short stories called “Insubmissas Tears of Women”. To understand elements of structural racism, decolonial feminism and to highlight the contribution of representative literature for young people who increasingly need belonging, we analyzed the textual composition of two short stories from this book that narrates the life stories of black Brazilian women. It is an essayistic article, with autobiographical nuances (focused on the life narrative of the first author), whose discursive action is in tune with critical linguistic and literary education, through reading and writing processes based on decolonial authorship, such as that put in practice by Conceição in her writing. The reflections were made based on socio-discursive theories and decolonial theories related to black feminism, the anti-racist fight and against lesbophobia.