Tales, testimonies and memories of brazilian and mozambican black women writers

Abstract

This article aims to provide some elements for a reflection on the literary creation of black women writers in the context of Portuguese language literatures and is based on the research for my doctorate degree, which had two sources of data: the testimony and the analysis of the short novels books As andorinhas, by Paulina Chiziane, Insubmissas lágrimas de mulheres, by Conceição Evaristo, Malungos e milongas, by Esmeralda Ribeiro, and Ninguém matou Suhura, by Lilia Momplé. In the present study, our intention is to discuss the act of writing as a political action and the resistance of the referred women, who act politically and ideologically in order to decolonize the history and minds of readers, rearranging the literary space and its hegemonic discourse.