Cartografia da memória: a percepção dos lugares e de identidades afrodescendentes nos romances Ponciá Vivêncio e Becos da Memória, de Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

This dissertation emphasizes the study of novels Poncia Vicencio and Alleys memory Conceição Evaristo, relating the conceptual categories of memory, identity and place. One goal of the research is to trace the identity map of the characters of the two novels from the perception of places and as such places and even identity itself is linked to the idea of memory, highlighting how perceptions around the place, the home, the territory may be decisive for a literary analysis. Since it is the study of the work of an author, analyze the construction and displacement of women's identities. In this sense, this research reveals how identity and territoriality are closely interrelated in the novels of author. In both novels Evaristo, the narrative points to the construction of black identity, which engaged texts emanate stories of slavery, violence, social exile of black. However, the narrated episodes are marked by an intense lyricism. It is important to note that the analysis is based on studies and strategies of literary Criticism African descent and cultural studies, using the theoretical approach of authors such as Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Edouard Glissant, Frantz Fanon, Marc Augé, Roland Walter, among others. The cartography of memory presented here reveals the identity maps present in memory and Alleys Poncia Vicencio.