Estudo dos romances Beloved e Ponciá Vicêncio: histórias de violência e resistência na escravidão

Abstract

The present work has as corpus the novels Beloved (1987) and Ponciá Vicêncio (2003), respectively, of the authors Toni Morrison and Conceição Evaristo, because they present relevant similarities for the studies of afrodescendant literature. The objective is to understand, through a comparative study, how are represented the manifestations of violence against the black characters during slavery and post-slavery and how they developed forms of resistance to subalternity. In the fiction of these authors, the aggressions motivated by race and gender. It was concluded that, in both works, the characters develop resistance strategies through the murder of relatives as a form of liberation against the slave system causing damage to the slave másters. The choice of these themes is justified because both narratives dialogue with cultural and historiographic studies. The method of investigation adopted was the analyticalqualitative, chosen with the purpose of understanding and interpreting, through the experience of the literary text of Afrodescendant origin in the Americas and of female authorship, the representations of black resistance and violence that permeate the narratives.The research technique adopted was the bibliographical research. In order to understand the corpus selected resorted to various theoretical contributions, critics argue that the construction of African descent as literature such as Duarte (2013), Cuti (2010), Walter (2009); The issues of gender and race supported by authors such as Hooks (1995), Carneiro (2003); The post-colonial studies of Bhabha, (2001); The discussions on race proposed by Fanon (2008), Du Bois (1999); The historiographical contributions of Gorender (2010), Giacomini (1998); as well as resistance concepts proposed by Scott (2011).