ESCREVENDO A PARTIR DA FERIDA: UMA ANÁLISE DA PROSA POÉTICA ÁGUAS DE KALUNGA, DE CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO

WRITING FROM THE WOUND: AN ANALYSIS OF THE POETIC PROSE ÁGUAS DE KALUNGA, BY CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO

Abstract

For this text we chose the poetic prose “Águas de Kalunga”, by Conceição Evaristo, to (re)construct stories that are currently told, but that we still hear very little about. From an analysis of a decolonizing perspective, this article focuses on literature (writing and reading) as a tool for healing and transforming subjectivity into an experience that is personal and collective, as well as an act of expanding consciousness. Our interest is to offer a theoretical option that explores the subjectivity and collective of the subject based on decolonial thinking, while building an ethnic action and change, that is, an awareness and overcoming of limitations related to ethnic-racial prejudices and discrimination. For our objective to be achieved, we raised the notion autohistoria worked by Gloria Anzaldúa, as well as reflections from other Black feminist women, such as Leda Maria Martins (Spiral Time) and Conceição Evaristo herself (escrevivência), while our reflections intertwine in this writing-analysis process. The words of Águas de Kalunga confirm the sea as a place of pain (wound), but also of healing since we see it as a place of ancestral knowledge that guide and show us a deeper knowledge of ourselves and the other who is present in us.