A study of Insubmissas lágrimas de mulheres, by Conceição Evaristo.
Women and Literature. Insubmissas lágrimas de mulheres. Feminism. Gender violence. Conceição Evaristo.
This master thesis aims to analyze the protagonists of the tales “Isaltina Campo Belo”,
“Natalina Soledad” and “Aramides Florence” with the focus on the construction of the main
characters and their importance as a representation of women in our society. The tales are in
the book Insubmissas lágrimas de mulheres, published in 2011, wrote by Conceição Evaristo,
one of the biggests writers in activity in Brazil and exponent of the writing of women and
Afro-Brazilian voices. Besides that that research discuss the relations between the inequality
of the number of women authors published by literary Market, as pointed out by
Dalcastagnè's research, A personagem do romance brasileiro contemporâneo: 1990-2004
(2005), and the scarcity of female representations that escape the crystallized stereotypes in
our literature. In an attempt to understand the way the protagonists are represented and
observe the differential of Conceição Evaristo's writing. The research is based on the
reflections on women in society from Simone de Beauvoir (2016), Angela Davis (2016, 2017,
2018), Lauretis (1994), Monshipouri (2004) and Muzart (1999, 2003), issues that involves
representation Bakhtin (1988), identity, sexuality and gender and their oppression and
violence are analyzed in dialogue with Butler (2017), Bourdieu (2012), Nichanian (2012),
Saffioti (1992) Tyson (2006) and Wittig (2006); in order to complement the reflections on the
Afro-Brazilian question Du Bois (1999), Evaristo (2009) and Ribeiro (2018). In the course of
the research, showed up latent the necessity to acknowledgment the importance of Conceição
Evaristo's writing and its relevance to an emancipatory representation of women and black
women in life and in art, carrying identities previously invisible as by literature as by society.