Banca de DEFESA: GISANA KAREN ARAÚJO COSTA LIRA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : GISANA KAREN ARAÚJO COSTA LIRA
DATE: 15/12/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Auditório D - CCHLA
TITLE:

Eternally Shipwrecked?: On Waters and Memories in Poemas da recordação e outros movimentos by Conceição Evaristo

KEY WORDS:

Black women’s poetry; Conceição Evaristo; Poemas da recordação e outros movimentos; water; memory.

PAGES: 129
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
SUMMARY:

Literature, as an artistic and cultural expression, emerges as another space of resistance for the claiming of voice and self-definition, in the face of historical erasure and silencing of the Afro-Brazilian population. Poetry, consciously or not, expresses subjectivity, and often reveals aspects of this disregarded memory, constructing it from symbolic elements that unveil and complexify issues that involve our social imaginary. Diasporic writing and the aesthetics of Escrevivência, imbued by the remarkable aspect of the place from which one speaks and writes, traces paths from the past that flow into the current context, provoking and inciting movements of transformation. In this current flow that directs towards subjectivities of memory, this master’s thesis consists of investigating and analyzing the poem collection Poemas da recordação e outros movimentos (Poems of remembrance and other movements) (2017), by Conceição Evaristo, based on its expressive relation with the water element. This study proposes, through bibliographical research of an analytical-interpretative nature, to analyze the poems from the aforementioned literary work, based on books, articles and other sources by authors who discuss the symbolism of water, highlighting evidence of its connection with the idea of memory, from a countercolonial (Santos, 2023) perspective in dialogue with literary criticism. Thus, the question this analysis seeks to answer is: to what extent is it possible to identify in the poems the construction of a symbolism of water related to the idea of memory? The research developed, therefore, focuses on the linguistic and aesthetic aspects the author uses to construct images related to the memory of the Brazilian black people, through the water element and, according to the analysis, it is possible to observe the construction of a poetics of water, as well as its relation with the idea of memory, of suffering, but also of hope and movement.

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